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1968

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1993

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Drawing, Design for Ark Curtain, Beth Am Synagogue, Los Altos, CA

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1968 and we acquired it in 1993. Its medium is brush and gouache, graphite on cream cardboard. 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.

  • Textile
  • silk.
  • Gift of John Pierpont Morgan.
  • 1902-1-381

Its dimensions are

H x W: 33 × 52.7 cm (13 in. × 20 3/4 in.)

It is signed

Signed in graphite on old cardboard mat, lower right: T. Guermonprez '68

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite on old cardboard mat, lower left: T.I.; in pen and black ink on white label, lower right verso of mat: CURTAIN FOR TEMPEL [sic]/BETH AM..LOS ALTOS/SILK/BROCADING/1968/69

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for Ark Curtain, Beth Am Synagogue, Los Altos, CA; USA; brush and gouache, graphite on cream cardboard; H x W: 33 × 52.7 cm (13 in. × 20 3/4 in.); Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives; 1993-121-72

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