Tags | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Print, Blue Gradations

Print, Blue Gradations
Gift of Unknown Donor.
1980-32-1302

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

Textile, Motus
cotton.
Gift of the Liliane and David M. Stewart Collection.
2001-30-1

This object was made by Expansion.
This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 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 flat circular vase with a short neck and slightly spouted lip. In an over amethyst-colored glass, interior shaped as a water droplets, the thick cased body contains cascading colors of deep blue and sea blue and clear glass.

Vase (Italy)
blow and cased glass.
Gift of Michael Lewis Balamuth.
1971-66-2

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

A large trumpet shaped fluted vase with an undulating wine-red rim. It tapers to a clear yellow-amber-ochre colored body. The circular foot base connects to the stem with a bejeweled colored pattern of purple, deep red and gold.

Vase (USA), 1883–88
blown amberina glass.
Gift of Paul F. Walter.
2010-6-3

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

An acrylic and polyester color blanket woven with chenille yarns. The blanket consists of a grid five columns by nine rows where shades of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet range from pastels to grey-ish hues. The right-most column of the grid is pastel in shade, moving to the grey tones on the left, and the rows are yellow to orange to red to green to blue to indigo to violet from top to bottom.

Color Blanket, Hint, 2016
50% acrylic, 50% polyester.
Gift of Designtex Group.
2016-20-1

This object was made by Designtex.
This object is part of the Textiles collection.

A tan, vertically-rectangular textile with a pattern of differently-sized and differently-colored small rectangles. The rectangles repeat in hues of orange, red, purple, and blue. The different widths of the rectangles repeat in groups of three in rows across the textile, with three identical smaller-width rectangles positioned next to three larger-width rectangles, and so on - this repeats across the whole of the textile on top of the overall tan color of the background.

Textile, Landis
linen, polyester.
Gift of Jack Lenor Larsen, Inc..
1977-67-6

This object was made by Jack Lenor Larsen Incorporated.
This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

A computer ink on paper drawing of an aerial view of a cube split into eight floating blocks. Each block is comprised of 49 microcubes. Each cube and is graded in color creating a three dimensional color chart. The cube at the leftmost bottom corner red to orange, the one above yellow to green. The cube at the bottom next to the red to orange cube is pink to violet, the one above is white with tinges of pink and blue. The cube in the right most bottom corner is deep blue to violet, the one above cyan to bright blue and the one beside it light green to dark green. Black text at the bottom details author, title and date.

Drawing, The Chromo Cube
computer ink plotter print on paper.
Gift of Beck & Jung.
1981-19-1

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

Vibrant indigo-colored conical bowl with two stylized divets notched on oppposite sides of the rim. The conical shape blooms upward and outwardly from a very small white base at the foot of the bowl. The diameter is very wide at the top and very small at the bottom, the bowl itself very thin.

Pebbled YKB Bowl
glazed porcelain.
Gift of Dr. J. William Fielding.
1984-103-1

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Print, "dark green over scarlet", Plate 1 "Color / Moire" Portfolio

Print, "dark green over scarlet", Plate 1 "Color / Moire" Portfolio
screenprint on heavy off-white wove paper..
Gift of Tamar Cohen.
1999-6-6-5

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

A screenprint on white wove paper poster with a fluroescent orange and red ombre portrait of the artist holding a cigarette set against a blue, green and yellow gradient background. In the lower left are Japanese characters printed in orange, and the word [SEIBU] is printed in white capitals inside a white box, with white Japanese characters underneath on our left corner of the portrait.

Poster, Exhibition of Rokuro Taniuchi at Seibu Department Store
screenprint on white wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2009-12-14

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

A digital jacquard weaved cotton wall hanging with a dark ground and irregularly spaced and overlapping white, blue, yellow and burnt orange circles in soft focus. The image is taken from an unfocused video recording capturing the light in Shanghai from driving cars and advertising signs at night.

Hanging, Rush Hour 2/Shanghai
cotton.
Museum purchase through gift of Wolf-Gordon, Maleyne M. Syracuse and Michael....
2014-15-1

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

A drawing of a montainus landscape during a thunderstoem. Two rainbows emerge from the clouds as a white vein of lightening strikes from the sky to ground. The mountains are blurry in the fog and the green grass transitions from a hunter green to a more vibrant green in the foreground. On the right side of the drawing, a lone small structure with a bulbous roof that conforms to a point, is placed atop the grass. A warm, yellow light illuminates the right portion of the sky and then fades into grey.

Drawing, Thunderstorm in the Alps
brush and oil paint, graphite on paperboard.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-509

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

Poster, Teaser for The Matrix Reloaded

Poster, Teaser for The Matrix Reloaded
engraving on holographic foil laid down on heavy white wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-95

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

A machine-printed paper frieze with a landscape design showing repeating clusters of brown, spindly trees with few leaves growing from dark green grassy mounds on an earth which gradiates from deep pink to pale peach. The trees are set against a backdrop of olive green leafy trees and a golden sky.

Frieze (USA)
machine-printed paper.
Gift of Paul F. Franco.
1938-50-16

This object was made by Hobbs, Benton & Heath.
This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Poster, Tanzstudio Wulff

Poster, Tanzstudio Wulff
letterpress on white wove paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
2004-1-1

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

Silver Streak Iron

Silver Streak Iron
molded and emulsion-painted pyrex glass, cast and nickel-plated steel, molded....
Gift of George R. Kravis II.
2015-5-12

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

An anaglyph or 3D digital print wallpaper design filled wtih black and white images of the Aeonium cacti, overlayered with identical images printed slightly off registr in red and blue. When viewed through red and blue lenses only one of the two images is seen by each eye. The brain then fuses these images into the perception of a three-dimensional composition.

Sidewall, Bloom, 2015
digital print on paper.
Gift of twenty2 wallpaper.
2015-28-1

This object was made by twenty2 wallpaper.
This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.

A seemingly seven layered bangle bracelet with a repeated cross motif layered creating a radiating cross shape with a seperate background color..A pattern emerges of red-orange, light pink and light blue, however,each cross varies in color, either red, red-orange, light blue, light pink and surrounded by white space. The interior of the bangle has streaks of all the colors in various patterns.

Bracelet, ca. 1970
laminated, baked, and cut cellulose acetate.
Gift of Myra Cooper.
2015-37-1

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

Color Blanket, Weaving Palettes

Color Blanket, Weaving Palettes
54% cotton, 30% solution-dyed nylon, 15% post-consumer recycled polyester.
Gift of Momentum Group.
2013-36-4

This object was made by Momentum Group.
This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Poster depicts tapestry of printer control marks in various tones of magenta, purple, cyan, yellow, green, black and white. These marks are presented in circles, squares, rectangles, ovals, and lines. On the reverse side, the text advertises a series of exhibitions on editorial dsign helf in 2008 in the town of Chaumont, France.

Poster, Specimen
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Fanette Mellier.
2013-18-1

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

A white horizontal poster with overlapping colorful letters spelling Knoll in blue, indigo, pink and yellow. The letter K and the two ls take up the full lengthof the poster, and where the K, n, and o overlap the color green appears. Black text in the upper section states [Bertoia, Florence Knoll, Saarinen, Miles van der Rohe / Noguchi have designed for Knoll. / Aulenti , Albinson, Cafiero, Christen, Colombo, Mangiarotti, Pearson, Pettit, Plather, Pollock, / Schultz, and Stephens still do. / Knoll international, in 28 countries, has all these furniture an textile designs. / 320 Park Avenue, New York / Knoll International]. The final [Knoll International] is in larger font.

Poster, Knoll International
offset lithograph on white wove paper.
Gift of Lella and Massimo Vignelli.
2009-42-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Colour Terrise Sample Plate

Colour Terrise Sample Plate
glazed porcelain.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment.
2005-11-2

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

Sample Plate (France)

Sample Plate (France)
glazed porcelain.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment.
2005-11-1

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

Sample Plate (France)

Sample Plate (France)
glazed earthenware.
Museum purchase from Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund.
2003-5-5

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Drawing, New Haven Government Center, New Haven, CT

Drawing, New Haven Government Center, New Haven, CT
graphite, color pencil on tracing paper.
1978-183-5

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

A computer ink on paper poster of a blue sky with wispy clouds on which a three dimensional cube floats in the bottom right corner. The cube is made up of sixteen square gridded panels, each panel in various chromatic colors so that when viewed all together it represents a gradient of the color spectrum. The panels at the back in the red, orange and violet spectrum, the ones at the front in the yellow and white spectrum, the ones at the bottom in the green and blue spectrum.

Poster, Chrome Cube
computer ink plotter print on paper.
Gift of Holger Backstrom and Bo Ljundberg.
1985-9-1

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

Book plate showing a graphic representation of a musical score, whereby geometric forms vary in width to indicate the duration of notes, and vertical position to show pitch. Each bar of the music is indicated by three diamonds in the colors yellow and white bordered at the top, whilst double triangles positioned to form rectangles of yellow and pink, blue and red, yellow and purple, red and grey, purple and lilac, an yellow and blue indicate chords, and tiny triangles in red and blue suggest individual notes.

Drawing, Study 140, "The Magic Fire-Scene," from Die Walküre by Richard Wagner
color pencil, graphite on cream wove paper.
Gift of the Estate of John De Cesare.
1982-25-61

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

Color Wheel
oil paint on composition board.
Gift of Hilaire Hiler.
1960-244-1

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

Drawing, Study 135 #3, Transcription of "Ave Maria," a Sacred Melody Adapted to the First Prelude of J. S. Bach by Charles Gounod

Drawing, Study 135 #3, Transcription of "Ave Maria," a Sacred Melody Adapted...
color pencil, graphite on cream wove paper.
Gift of the Estate of John De Cesare.
1982-25-57

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

Large sample of silk-screen printed cotton velvet with a design of striped, curving lines in eight gradated shades of turquoise. The eight lines curve identically in three separate and equally identical groups that run vertically down the sample: the gradation of the lines move from dark to light beginning at the left of each group. The negative space throughout the sample is filled with a medium-toned turquoise color that also exists as a line in the middle of each group. There is an irregular white border around the sample with small print lettering and the artist's signature in cursive running down the top left corner of the border. Slight creases that form neat squares are present throughout the sample's fabric.

Sample, Decor I Series, Curve, 1969
cotton.
Museum purchase from the Members' Acquisitions Fund of Cooper Hewitt....
2017-9-2

This object was made by Mira-X International Furnishings, Inc..
This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Large sample of silk-screen printed cotton velvet with a checkerboard design of squares in eight gradated shades of turquoise, the darkest shades forming a large diamond lattice. The shades of the squares within each diamond lattice gradate lighter towards the center until only one precise center square within each lattice is the lightest color of turquoise. There is an irregular white border around the sample with small print lettering and the artist's signature in cursive running down the top left corner of the border. A series of twelve small white dots run across the bottom of the sample almost touching the border.

Sample, Decor I Series, Checkerboard, 1969
cotton.
Museum purchase from the Members' Acquisitions Fund of Cooper Hewitt....
2017-9-3

This object was made by Mira-X International Furnishings, Inc..
This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Large sample of silk-screen printed cotton velvet with a design of concentric squares in eight gradated shades of turquoise. The concentric pattern sections out the sample in an overall 3x3 formation of nine distinctly large squares. Beginning at the top left, every other large square has within it eight gradations that start with an outter dark turquoise and grow to light; the remaining four squares between this pattern have an opposite formation that has an outter light turquoise that gradates to dark. There is an irregular white border around the sample.

Sample, Decor I Series, Square, 1969
cotton.
Museum purchase from the Members' Acquisitions Fund of Cooper Hewitt....
2017-9-4

This object was made by Mira-X International Furnishings, Inc..
This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Handkerchief Vase

Handkerchief Vase
blown and cased glass.
Gift of Christian Rohlfing.
1969-46-1

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

A twill woven cotton and merino wool blanket with twenty-five horizontal bands of color which increase and descrease in saturation in small block increments from one side to the other. The colors include violet, olive green, pink, pale blue and lemon yellow. At the top of the blanket the words [RAW COLOR, MULTITONE, INDEX COLLECTION] are printed in violet capital letters

Blanket, Index Collection, 2012
organic cotton warp, merino wool weft.
Gift of Raw Color.
2013-22-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.