Design for Woven Textile with Menorah
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Object Details
- Designer
- Trude Guermonprez, (American, born Germany, 1910–1976)
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Roughly square field divided into uneven rectangles, some with dense silver hatchings, some with less dense silver hatchings. In right half of field, a large, seven-branched menorah with "Yisrael" in blue Hebrew characters beneath. In left half of field "Yisrael" in blue Hebrew characters at upper left with a version of a menorah (upside down) beneath.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives
- 1950–76
- Accession Number
- 1993-121-52
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- textile designs
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Brush and gouache, silver paint, graphite on textured white paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 37.8 × 43.5 cm (14 7/8 × 17 1/8 in.)
- made in
- Guerneville, CA, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1993-121-52
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq43d898d38-2b77-491b-95b4-a8cd18e28f8b
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