Object Timeline

1940

  • Work on this object began.

1949

  • Work on this object ended.

2000

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

  • You found it!

Drawing, Textile Design

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Alexander Hayden Girard. It is dated 1940–49 and we acquired it in 2000. Its medium is brush and watercolor, graphite, color pencil on tracing paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Alexander Hayden Girard. It is credited Gift of Alexander H. Girard.

Its dimensions are

54.5 x 71.3 cm (21 7/16 x 28 1/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, upper right: 46 (inscribed in a circle) / shray' [sic]; upper left: "475"

Cite this object as

Drawing, Textile Design; Designed by Alexander Hayden Girard (American, 1907–1993); brush and watercolor, graphite, color pencil on tracing paper; 54.5 x 71.3 cm (21 7/16 x 28 1/16 in.); Gift of Alexander H. Girard; 1969-165-213

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