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Drawing, Le Jardin de L'Aviateur (Garden of an Aviator)
This is a Drawing. It was designed by André Vera and Paul Vera and drafted by André Vera and dyed by Paul Vera. It is dated ca. 1914 and we acquired it in 1991. Its medium is graphite, brush and black ink, black wash on cream 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.
Its dimensions are
54.6 × 47.5 cm (21 1/2 × 18 11/16 in.) Mat: 71.1 × 55.9 cm (28 × 22 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in black crayon, upper left margin: USINES / HANGAR; left margin: CHAMP [erased] / CHAMP / D'AVIATION
Cite this object as
Drawing, Le Jardin de L'Aviateur (Garden of an Aviator); Designed by André Vera (French, active Paris, 1881–1971), Paul Vera (French, active Paris, 1882–1957); France; graphite, brush and black ink, black wash on cream tracing paper; 54.6 × 47.5 cm (21 1/2 × 18 11/16 in.) Mat: 71.1 × 55.9 cm (28 × 22 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund; 1991-58-11
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Modernist French Garden: Design by the Vera Brothers.