Tags | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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A large golden yellow rectangle square lies in the middle of a large burlap rectangle with frayed edges at the top. This golden yellow rectangle has two green rising seaweeds on the left and right near the edges. Overlaid is a bright yellow square with wavy blue edges on the right and left of a smaller black square. On this black square are tan leaves on the top and bottom borders with a central leaf structure made of dark blue laying on light green square.

Sample Book Page, Mural Scrolls
screen printed on canvas.
Gift of Katzenbach and Warren, Inc..
1953-61-1-2

This object was made by Katzenbach and Warren, Inc..
This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.
There are 10 images of this object.

Plate (USA)
hand-thrown and glazed earthenware.
Bequest of James H. Stubblebine.
1988-44-1

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Plate (USA)
hand-thrown and glazed earthenware.
Bequest of James H. Stubblebine.
1988-44-2

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Plate (USA)
hand-thrown and glazed earthenware.
Bequest of James H. Stubblebine.
1988-44-6

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Object ID #907214109
printed paperboard binding.
Collection of John C. Waddell.
53.2016.7

There are 2 images of this object.

Screen
silver leaf, lacquered wood, cast metal (hinges).
Gift of George R. Kravis II.
2018-22-29

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images and 1 video of this object.

This object has not been digitized yet.

Textile, Manhattan, 1930
linen.
Lent by Yale University Art Gallery, John P. Axelrod Collection, B.A. 1968,....
65.2016.7

Drawing, Abstract Cityscape

Drawing, Abstract Cityscape
graphite, orange crayon on wove paper.
Gift of Anonymous Donor.
1992-127-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Table Lamp, Rombic

Table Lamp, Rombic
glazed earthenware.
Collection of John C. Waddell.
53.2016.2

Seth Thomas mantle clock painted in black and gold. The clock has stepped sides and the black and gold are painted to give the sense of skyscrapers. In each corner of the white clock face there is a triangular design. Instead of numbers there are somewhat fanciful shapes of human beings. Very small black marquis shapes separate the ‘numbers”.

Object ID #907214089
painted and gilded wood.
Collection of John C. Waddell.
53.2016.1

A standing, three-paneled painted, wood-framed folding screen in redwood and black lacquer, depicting the craggy triangles and shadows of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Somewhat shallow in perspective, the top of the piece shows the flat buttes of the opposite side of the canyon. A turquoise blue, horizontal band represents a thin image of the sky. The depiction of the landscape evokes the sensation of a bright, sunny day; scenery is abstract with modernist influences.

Screen, Study in Cubist Realism, 1925
oil paint on wood panel, california redwood and black lacquer.
Denver Art Museum, Lent by Grant and Betty Hagestad, 43.2009.
56.2016.1

A low angular glass bowl with a wide mouth molded in a verdant green color. The vase displays a Cubist aesthetic that resembles faceted quartz.

Ruba Rombic Bowl Bowl, ca. 1928
glass.
Gift of George R. Kravis II.
2018-22-38

This object was made by Consolidated Lamp and Glass Company.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

Hanging (Italy)

Hanging (Italy)
wool.
Gift of Mary G. Morrison.
1959-168-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Sidewall - Samples, European Wallpapers: Modern Designs

Sidewall - Samples, European Wallpapers: Modern Designs
machine printed on paper.
Gift of Lois and William Katzenbach.
1969-167-1-13

This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.

Five stick figure geometic images depicted in a mural miniature for a large-scale wall decoration. The central image is of a obolong face and elongated black triangle looking like a black dress with a squiggly line for the legs and two mulit-colored tear drops as hands. On the left of the central image is a a figure made of long lines and balls at the end with two central boxes colored black and blue. Below this is a black round head figure lying down with a triangle skirt in red and black. This same image is seen on the top right of the central figure and below this is a squiggly lined figure with a rounded triangle face with a blue and red eye.

Sample Book Page, Mural Scrolls, 1948
screen printed on canvas.
Gift of Katzenbach and Warren, Inc..
1953-61-1-4

This object was made by Katzenbach and Warren, Inc..
This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.
There are 10 images of this object.

Square print on white paper with three concentric squares in violet, maroon, and red placed at the center of the sheet. Each square is placed near the bottom of its surrounding square. The brightness of the violet color makes the reds appear dull. The colors appear to vibrate where they meet.

Print, Palatial, Homage to the Square, Soft Edge – Hard Edge
screenprint on white paper.
Gift of the Museum of Graphic Art, New York.
1973-39-108

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Horizontal rectangular print with fifty colorful squares arranged in a grid five squares high by ten squares wide. The primary color shifts in a gradient from yellow filling the squares at left to red at right. Each square is filled with thin vertical lines in a contrasting color shifting from blue to green to yellow from top to bottom and bordered in that same color. Thin white lines fill the spaces in between the squares and a thick white border at top and bottom. Faint handwritten words in pencil at lower right.

Print, League of Women Voters
screenprint on paper.
Gift of Joshua Mack.
1995-38-8

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

A visitor stands in front of an interactive screen. The screen, vertical in orientation, is centered in the image and is surrounded by thin pillar-like objects creating a non-uniform striped background. The screen is displaying a composite image of the viewer by way of a live projection via a camera. The camera is subtly positioned beside the vertical screen on its left. Instead of a normal projection, the image displayed is distorted by super-imposing random images of eyes, nose, and lips of other subjects. This creates a caricature rendition of the visitor being captured. The visitor, standing in front of the screen to the right of the image, is slightly out of focus, drawing the viewer’s focus towards the interactive screen displaying the unique facial rendition.

Interactive Installation, Expression Mirror
computer, camera, monitor, electronic components, and software....
Courtesy of Zachary Lieberman.
s-e-3282

There are 5 images of this object.

The object in focus is shown in a warmly lit exhibition space. A visitor stands in fromt of a vertical digital screen mounted on a dark grey makeshift wall. Two circular warm lights are positioned on each corner illuminating the visitor that stands in front of it. The visitor, sporting a long hair and is wearing a white sleeveless top with black pants, is standing straight with their hands clasp behind the back. The screen reflects a close-up of the visitor’s face with white lines outlining the facial features and jawline. Text and other graphic elements are shown on top of the projected image. With the distance of the image capture, the text appears very small in the photo and is indecipherable.

Interactive Installation, Backstory: Expression Mirror
computer, camera, monitor, electronic components, and software....
Courtesy of Zachary Lieberman.
s-e-3283

There are 2 images of this object.

Print advertisement featuring in the center a large light-skin hand palm facing upwards with curved fingers, multi-colored filled squiggly teardrop shapes cascade from the top in the palm of the open hand, as if being caught. An overlaid, made up of tiny grey dots, pattern of the outlines of white flat leaves completely cover the print. Two interlocking leaves, located below the hand towards the bottom right, contain cursive text 'The Skillful hand' with small sans-serif font text underneath that describes the craftsmanship of Bianchini Fabrics in rows that follow the curves of leaves. Printed below in larger black cursive italic text in the bottom right: 'Bianchini-Férier, inc.' To the left, on the bottom edge, inside a leaf, small pink sans-serif text reads: 'A screen for fabric printing'.

Print, The Skillful Hand
offset lithograph on white paper.
Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A.....
2016-54-324

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Cup And Saucer (Austria)

Cup And Saucer (Austria)
enameled porcelain.
Museum purchase from Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund.
1986-83-4-a,b

This object was made by Wiener Porzellan Josef Böck and Schule Professor Koloman Moser.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Textile, Capitals

Textile, Capitals
cotton.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Funds.
1995-48-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Drawing, Parachute Pattern, Textile Design

Drawing, Parachute Pattern, Textile Design
brush and gouache, graphite on paper, lined.
Gift of Donald Cameron.
1992-51-58

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Textile, Turbo
100% poly-silk warp and 100% acetate ribbon weft.
Gift of Hechizoo and Cristina Grajales Gallery, New York.
2011-57-2

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Tile (USA)
glass.
Museum purchase through gift of Gertrude Crownfield.
1958-48-1

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Hanging (England)

Hanging (England)
linen, metal rods.
Museum purchase from Friends of Textiles Fund.
1976-37-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Buckle (USA)
brass, copper, silver.
Gift of Michele Wiener Caplan.
1995-157-1

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Hair Ornament (China)

Hair Ornament (China)
kingfisher feathers, lacquer, silk-covered wire.
Gift of William Dangaix Allen.
1939-73-11

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Drawing, Textile Design: Indian Heads

Drawing, Textile Design: Indian Heads
brush and gouache, graphite on heavy cream paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
2001-11-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Fruit Dish (Germany)

Fruit Dish (Germany)
glazed earthenware.
Gift of Victor Wiener.
1996-18-16

This object was made by Waechtersbach.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Plate (Germany)

Plate (Germany)
glazed earthenware.
Gift of Victor Wiener.
1996-18-44

This object was made by Max Roesler Factory.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Object ID #18475183

Object ID #18475183
black chalk on cream tracing paper.
Gift of Orinoka Mills.
1971-57-7

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

A playful design for a carpet using rectangles, circles, spirals and dots. Based roughly on a grid of 8 squares by 8 squares. Starting at upper left corner - an orange square with 6 small yellow circles inside (2 rows of 3, like dots on a domino) is connected horizontally by a solid yellow rectangle approximately 6 squares wide, to the upper right corner - a red square with an orange circle in the middle. This corner is connected vertically by a solid orange rectangle (6 squares tall) to the bottom right corner, a solid yellow square. This corner is connected horizontally by a red rectangle (6 squares wide) to the bottom left corner - an orange square with a yellow spiral inside almost to the edges. The bottom left is connected by a solid yellow rectangle (6 squares tall) to the top left corner square. These squares and rectangles form a border or “frame” around the interior field which is divided roughly into 3 horizontal tiers and 3 vertical tiers (like a tic tac toe board.) In the interior field each module is a box 2 squares by 2 squares. Starting from top tier, left module is solid red, adjacent to orange module bisected horizontally by a fat red stripe, adjacent to a yellow module also bisected by a fat red stripe (ie the stripe bisects both orange and yellow modules) Middle tier starts left with an orange module with a red spiral inside (to edges), adjacent to a solid orange module, adjacent to another orange module with a yellow spiral inside (to edges). Bottom tier starts with a yellow module with 9 small circles (3 rows of 3 dots) adjacent to a yellow module with a large orange circle (to edges) adjacent to a solid yellow module. Taken as a whole, one can imagine the two spirals in the middle tier as eyes, the circle on the lower tier as a nose and the dots on that tier as freckles. It looks like the face of a clown or a cute animal. The artwork appears drawn with graphite on tracing paper and then painted. Remnants of the pencil lines are visible. The tracing paper has some roughly torn edges, and some wrinkles and discoloration. In this image, some numbers appear “backwards” on the lower right margin. If one flips the entire image horizontally, they become legible ((1975-11-72)

Drawing, Design for Carpet
brush and yellow, red, orange gouache, graphite on tracing paper.
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1975-11-72

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Drawing, Textile Design: Stylized Flowers

Drawing, Textile Design: Stylized Flowers
brush and gouache, graphite on off-white illustration board .
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1975-11-34

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Drawing, Design for the Lysistrata Screen, Gilbert Seldes Apartment, 10 Henderson Place, New York, NY

Drawing, Design for the Lysistrata Screen, Gilbert Seldes Apartment, 10...
brush and gouache, brush and silver paint, graphite on illustration board.
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1975-11-13

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.