Flat Iron Holder

c. 1937

Isidore Sovensky

Associated Names
Isidore Sovensky

Artist, American, active c. 1935

The image displays a trivet with a leaf-like shape as the main object, supported by three small legs. The trivet features an intricate pattern within its outline and extends into a looped handle. The color palette is a mixture of beige and gray tones. The trivet is centrally positioned in the image and slightly off to the right. To the upper left of the trivet, there is a smaller, simplified line drawing of the same object, accompanied by a measurement scale just below it. The artist's name, I. Sovensky, is inscribed in the bottom left corner of the image.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite on paper

  • Credit Line

    Index of American Design

  • Dimensions

    overall: 22.5 x 28.9 cm (8 7/8 x 11 3/8 in.)
    Original IAD Object: 7 7/8" long; 3 7/8" wide; 13/16" high

  • Accession Number

    1943.8.15795


Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1970

  • Hornung, Clarence P., Treasury of American Design, New York: 1970, p. 503, no. 1845.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: I. SOVENSKY

Wikidata ID

Q64578865

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