Ernest Trova "Trovascope" for MOMA, 1974 skittles In 1972 Herbert Waide Hemphill

In 1972 Herbert Waide Hemphill

with the palest pink silk topped with beautiful sprawl of celadon green embroidery

The dealer I purchased it from referred to it as an onion box

there are glued repairs at a couple of corners and to the loop too

and this pile of peaches with purple fig at right was beautifully executed

Ernest Trova "Trovascope" for MOMA, 1974 skittles In 1972 Herbert Waide HemphillI found one of these several months ago, and will buy others if I find them as I think they're excellent. It is a "Trovascope" designed by artist Ernest Trova (1927 2009) for the Museum of Modern Art in 1974. I think more artists should design kaleidoscopes, but Trova was especially well suited to creating a very graphically satisfying one, with his "falling man" silhouettes lending themselves to all sorts of interesting kaleidoscopic permutations!