Drawing, Design for a Woven Hanging: Leaf Study

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1950–70 and we acquired it in 1993. Its medium is felt tip marker over graphite on two sheets of joined graph 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: 56.5 × 88.1 cm (22 1/4 × 34 11/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite along left and right edges: X (two times, one above the other); along lower edge at left: grey linen warp top / silk warp / silk tabby[?] or other color silk / leaves inlay wool like H.V. / rather open warp.; along lower edge, center left: letters centered /[descriptive drawing] outlines of / leaves start of double. Begin & End warps/together [...].

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