A horizontal black ink drawing of a planned garden. Pictured are five rectangular plots of grass: four with conical evergreen trees in the foreground. Each evergreen tree is surrounded by four smaller trees. These trees are half the height of the evergreens with thin trunks. They are topped with branches that hang down and are covered in flowers that appear like cotton balls. To the right of the trees are three long rectangular flowering shrubs, also with puffy cotton ball like flowers. The rear of the garden has three sections of geometric hedges. From left to right; four square hedges that form a square, two horizontal rectangles, and two vertical rectangles. The garden is bound on two sides by a tall squared that is even with the level above. On the left edge of the drawing a small set of stairs leads to a second level. Tree trunks surround the garden on the upper level planted equidistantly apart mimicking the shape of the hedge below. A fence is seen in the far-left background.

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Object Timeline

1912	Work on this object began.
1919	Work on this object ended.
1991	We acquired this object.
2013	We photographed this object.
2015	We photographed this object.
2021	We exhibited this object.
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Drawing, Garden with Small Flowering Shrubs and Evergreen Trees

This is a Drawing. It was designed by André Vera and Paul Vera. It is dated 1912–19 and we acquired it in 1991. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and white gouache, graphite on off-white wove 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.

Print, Orangeriee placé en Allées d'Arbres (Orangerie in Tree Paths), in Nouveaux Livre de Parterres contenant 24 pensséz diferantes (New Book Containing 24 Different Variations for Garden Beds)

Print, Orangeriee placé en Allées d'Arbres (Orangerie in Tree Paths), in...
etching and engraving on white laid paper.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
1988-4-22

Its dimensions are

16 × 31.5 cm (6 5/16 × 12 3/8 in.) Mat: 35.6 × 45.7 cm (14 × 18 in.)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Garden with Small Flowering Shrubs and Evergreen Trees; Designed by André Vera (French, active Paris, 1881–1971), Paul Vera (French, active Paris, 1882–1957); France; pen and black ink, brush and white gouache, graphite on off-white wove paper; 16 × 31.5 cm (6 5/16 × 12 3/8 in.) Mat: 35.6 × 45.7 cm (14 × 18 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund; 1991-58-21

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Modernist French Garden: Design by the Vera Brothers.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2Dw2i/
Accession Number 1991-58-21
Object ID 18636635