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1968

  • Work on this object began.

1969

  • Work on this object ended.

1993

  • We acquired this object.

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Drawing, Design for a Wedding Canopy, Beth Am Synagogue, Los Altos, CA

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1968–69 and we acquired it in 1993. Its medium is brush and red, brown watercolor, graphite, pen and green ink on white paper, overlaid with tracing paper with brush and red watercolor, squared in graphite. 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.

Its dimensions are

H x W (Tracing paper): 22.5 × 30.4 cm (8 7/8 × 11 15/16 in.) H x W (White paper): 45.5 × 30.3 cm (17 15/16 × 11 15/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite on tracing paper in left and right margins, along upper edge and on drawing across lower edge with numbers; on white paper above tracing paper, center left: mathematical notations; center: horizontal lines (weaving notations)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Wedding Canopy, Beth Am Synagogue, Los Altos, CA; USA; brush and red, brown watercolor, graphite, pen and green ink on white paper, overlaid with tracing paper with brush and red watercolor, squared in graphite; H x W (Tracing paper): 22.5 × 30.4 cm (8 7/8 × 11 15/16 in.) H x W (White paper): 45.5 × 30.3 cm (17 15/16 × 11 15/16 in.); Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives; 1993-121-75

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