- Titles Design for the Memory (Proper)
- Artist Abraham Rattner, American, 1893 - 1978
- Medium oil on canvas
- Dimensions 38 × 18 1/4 in. (96.5 × 46.4 cm) frame: 49 1/2 × 30 × 2 3/4 in. (125.7 × 76.2 × 7 cm)
- Credit Line Gift of Leslie and Elton B. Stephens, Jr., 2007.127, image © Estate of Abraham Rattner
- Work Type painting
- Classification Paintings
- Signature Signed, lower left: Rattner
- Inscription Labels affixed to upper part of frame, written in artist's hand: No. 313; title Design for the Memory / size 18 x 38 inches / year 1943 A Rattner; Various labels affixed to board on back of painting with tombstone information, including label for the Downtown Gallery, New York [name of gallery obscured]; a label for the Abraham Rattner Retrospective organized by the American Federation of the Arts, New York, January 1960-1961, Exhibition no. 59-48, no. 4; and a label for Kennedy Galleries Inc., inventory no. 0008542.
- Provenance Abraham Rattner (1893-1978), 1943; dealer Downtown Gallery, New York; dealer Kennedy Galleries, New York; purchased by Elton B. Stephens, Jr.; gift to the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, December 17, 2007