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Design for Wedding Canopy

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    Object Details

    Designer

    Trude Guermonprez, (American, born Germany, 1910–1976)

    Catalogue Status

    Research in Progress

    Description

    Canopy design for wedding huppah in the form of a horizontal, fringed shawl with a six-pointed star on right end and four Hebrew characters ["Shin"] at left end. Beneath design is small image of canopy supported on four poles.

    Credit Line

    Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives

    Date

    1961

    Accession Number

    1993-121-53

    Restrictions & Rights

    Usage conditions apply

    Type

    textile designs

    Object Name

    Drawing

    Type

    Drawing

    Medium

    White chalk, pen and brown ink on brown textured paper

    Dimensions

    H x W: 51.1 × 63.5 cm (20 1/8 in. × 25 in.)

    made in

    Guerneville, CA, USA

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    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
    Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department

    Data Source

    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

    Metadata Usage

    Not determined

    Link to Original Record

    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4fcd0758d-1368-4726-95bb-e8375ac8e91f

    Record ID

    chndm_1993-121-53

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