Drawing, Proposal for Pershing Square, Los Angeles

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Drawing, Proposal for Pershing Square, Los Angeles

This is a Drawing. It was created by James Wines and architect: James Wines and from the office of . It is dated 1986 and we acquired it in 1993. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, watercolor on thick white wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Lucy Work Hewitt.

A bird's-eye view of a formal garden, in dark ink on yellowed paper. Above the design reads 'Berseaux couvers de charmier.' A high rectangular wall of trimmed hedges encloses an interior hedge. For the shape of the inner hedge, imagine an X, then trace around it, curving the line at the intersection and ends of the X. The hedges are pierced with arched tunnels to allow two paths, one horizontal and one vertical, to meet in a fountain court in the center of the garden. The fountain is encircled with eight arched arbors sheltering benches; curving beds of plants and potted topiaries lead out to smaller fountains that sit inside the ends of the X. Below the design, at left, 'D. Marot fec:'. At right, 'avec Privilegie. 11'. At the top of the page is a detail of another garden design with curving plant beds and potted topiaries. The plants are depicted with delicate detail, and squiggling lines suggest the texture of the hedges.

Print, Design for a Garden Parterre of Cut Grass and Colored Gravel, from...
etching on cream laid paper.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
1988-4-17

Its dimensions are

Sheet: 56.5 x 76.0 cm (22 1/4 x 29 15/16 in.)

It is signed

Signed in pen and brown ink, lower right: SITE J.W. 1986

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left: PERSHING SQUARE-LOS ANGELES

Cite this object as

Drawing, Proposal for Pershing Square, Los Angeles; James Wines (American, b. 1932); Office of (Michelle Stone, American, b. 1944); USA; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, watercolor on thick white wove paper; Sheet: 56.5 x 76.0 cm (22 1/4 x 29 15/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Lucy Work Hewitt; 1993-115-1

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2DxXH/
Accession Number 1993-115-1
Object ID 18643155