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1950

  • Work on this object began.

1970

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1993

  • We acquired this object.

2013

2025

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Drawing, Design for a Curtain, Park Synagogue, Cleveland Heights, OH

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1960 and we acquired it in 1993. Its medium is cut paper, brush and gouache on gold-patterned chinese 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: 35.4 × 27.9 cm (13 15/16 in. × 11 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and black ink on old mat beneath drawing, left: Curtain: Gold/Tempel (sic) Cleveland; at right: Trude Guermonprez / Pond Farm / Guerneville

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Curtain, Park Synagogue, Cleveland Heights, OH; USA; cut paper, brush and gouache on gold-patterned chinese paper; H x W: 35.4 × 27.9 cm (13 15/16 in. × 11 in.); Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives; 1993-121-66

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