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Drawing, Package Design
This is a drawing. It was designed by Henry Dreyfuss. It is dated 1929 and we acquired it in 1973. Its medium is brush and gouache, watercolor, silver and gold paint, graphite on white wove paper . It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Dreyfuss’s packaging designs for the Hickok Company, purveyors of high quality men’s accessories, feature three different color variations of a dynamic triangular motif. Hickok goods, including belts and wallets, were sold in smartly decorated packaging that functioned as both an ideal gift box and attractive storage.
It is credited Gift of University of California, Los Angeles.
- Drawing, Designs for Bowls, Vases, Candlesticks, and Teapots
- graphite on tracing paper.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 2006-16-1
- Drawing, Product Label for Ice Cream
- brush and green gouache, graphite on thick white paper.
- Gift of University of California, Los Angeles.
- 1973-15-42
- Drawing, Product Label for National Dairy Ice Cream
- brush and gouache on thick white paper.
- Gift of University of California, Los Angeles.
- 1973-15-51
Our curators have highlighted 3 objects that are related to this one.
- Drawing, Carpet Design: Geometric Pattern
- brush and watercolor, gouache on photostat mounted on wove paper in a bound....
- Gift of Daren Pierce.
- 1982-79-17-2
- Drawing, Design for Packaging, Whitman's
- brush and green watercolor, gouache, gold metallic paint, graphite on paper.
- Gift of University of California, Los Angeles.
- 1973-15-77
- Bookplate, Interaction of Color
- offset lithograph on paper.
- Smithsonian Libraries, ND1489 .A33.
- 92.2016.48
Its dimensions are
21.4 x 28.2 cm (8 7/16 x 11 1/8 in.) Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and red ink at center left: 478; in graphite at lower right: 2
Cite this object as
Drawing, Package Design; Designed by Henry Dreyfuss (American, 1904–1972); USA; brush and gouache, watercolor, silver and gold paint, graphite on white wove paper ; 21.4 x 28.2 cm (8 7/16 x 11 1/8 in.) Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.); Gift of University of California, Los Angeles; 1973-15-58
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color and The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource.
