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Drawing, Design for a Curtain, Beth Am Synagogue, Los Altos, CA, 1968

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1968 and we acquired it in 1993. Its medium is cut paper, brush and gouache, crayon, gold and silver paper, overlaid with cellophane. 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: 35.6 × 44.5 cm (14 in. × 17 1/2 in.)

It is signed

Signed in graphite on old mat below lower right corner of drawing: T Guermonprez '68; beneath lower left corner of drawing: M I.

It is inscribed

Inscribed in blue ink on white label on verso of mat, lower right, : Curtain for tempel [sic]/ "Beth Am" Los Altos / silk / double cloth / 1968 (beneath text at left); M.I. (beneath text at right)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Curtain, Beth Am Synagogue, Los Altos, CA, 1968; USA; cut paper, brush and gouache, crayon, gold and silver paper, overlaid with cellophane; H x W: 35.6 × 44.5 cm (14 in. × 17 1/2 in.); Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives; 1993-121-70

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