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Drawing, Textile Design: Menjou

This is a Drawing. It was made for Wiener Werkstätte. It is dated ca. 1927 and we acquired it in 1988. Its medium is brush and gouache on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds.

Its dimensions are

17.8 × 17.6 cm (7 in. × 6 15/16 in.) Mat: 46 × 29.8 cm (18 1/8 × 11 3/4 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and black ink, upper left: MENJOU; in blue crayon, upper right: 277

Cite this object as

Drawing, Textile Design: Menjou; Made for Wiener Werkstätte (Austria); brush and gouache on paper; 17.8 × 17.6 cm (7 in. × 6 15/16 in.) Mat: 46 × 29.8 cm (18 1/8 × 11 3/4 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds; 1988-62-584

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