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Drawing, Design for Wedding Canopy

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1961 and we acquired it in 1993. Its medium is white chalk, pen and brown ink on brown textured paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 51.1 × 63.5 cm (20 1/8 in. × 25 in.)

It is signed

Signed and dated in pen and brown ink, lower right: Trude Guermonprez / 1961

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left: WEDDING CANOPY IN MANY SHADES OF WHITE AND NATURAL LINEN / WITH SUBTLE TRACES OF SILVER AND GOLD / WOVEN AS A TAPESTRY IN THE TECHNIQUE OF PRECOLOMBIAN / DOUBLE WEAVE RESEMBLING DAMASK

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for Wedding Canopy; USA; white chalk, pen and brown ink on brown textured paper; H x W: 51.1 × 63.5 cm (20 1/8 in. × 25 in.); Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives; 1993-121-53

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