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1950

  • Work on this object began.

1975

  • Work on this object ended.

1992

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

  • You found it!

Drawing, Design for Two Pendants and Two Pins

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1960–65 and we acquired it in 1992. Its medium is pen and blue ink, graphite, ballpoint pen on wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of Elsa Freund.

Its dimensions are

20.0 x 12.7 cm (7 7/8 x 5 in. )

It is signed

Lower right in black ink: Elsa Freund

It is inscribed

Left center in black ink: "This is a rather large stone / I can make a smaller one if you wish"; At right in blue ink: "*2 1/2 inches"; At lower left in black ink: "* Please excuse the rough sketches!!"; At lower right in blue ink: "This is more / like my white / bracelet."; At lower center in black ink: "*Discriptive [sic] drawings for customer."

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for Two Pendants and Two Pins; USA; pen and blue ink, graphite, ballpoint pen on wove paper; 20.0 x 12.7 cm (7 7/8 x 5 in. ); Gift of Elsa Freund; 1992-107-2

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