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Drawing, Ground Plan of a Formal Garden
This is a Drawing. It was designed by André Vera and Paul Vera and drafted by Eugène Verdeau. It is dated ca. 1919 and we acquired it in 1991. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and green, blue, orange watercolor, graphite on tracing paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
It is credited Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund.
- Print, Title Page, from Nouveaux Livre de Parterres (New Book of Garden Beds)
- etching and engraving on white laid paper.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 1988-4-19
- Drawing, Plan for West Field, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
- graphite, color pencil on paper.
- From Lise, Ceil, and Zoe Friedman in honor of their mother, Mildred Friedman.
- 2017-69-1
Its dimensions are
41.8 × 32.3 cm (16 7/16 × 12 11/16 in.) Mat: 55.9 × 40.6 cm (22 × 16 in.)
Cite this object as
Drawing, Ground Plan of a Formal Garden; Designed by André Vera (French, active Paris, 1881–1971), Paul Vera (French, active Paris, 1882–1957); Drafted by Eugène Verdeau (French); France; pen and black ink, brush and green, blue, orange watercolor, graphite on tracing paper; 41.8 × 32.3 cm (16 7/16 × 12 11/16 in.) Mat: 55.9 × 40.6 cm (22 × 16 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund; 1991-58-15
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Modernist French Garden: Design by the Vera Brothers.
