Ernest Trova "Trovascope" for MOMA, 1974 cricket stool On the inside cover Agnes

On the inside cover Agnes Gilbert lists the 16 samples she carefully preserved and detailed for her Botany II course

with the arches more or less matching

unusual in my experience for a folk painting on slate

10 3/4" t x 9 3/8" w x 7 5/8" d

Published by Oxford University Press in 1977

Ernest Trova "Trovascope" for MOMA, 1974 cricket stool On the inside cover AgnesI 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!