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A day dress manufactured with a black velvet vest overlapping the dress of bold floral designs with a wide pleated skirt and wide sleeves with velvet trim. The black velvet vest has a circular neck where two narrow edges surround three circular openings beneath and on both sides with a seam showing on the front of the vest and a narrow velvet piece of trim attached to the connecting circles. Under the arms, the vest curves downward toward the waist ending with a bow placed on the waistline on both sides revealing printed fabric. The same velvet circular design functions as a border for both sleeves with rectangular trim that ends below the elbow. The skirt section flares out between the waist and knee on front and on both sides due to an inverted pleat. The skirt narrows at the hem creating a rounded effect. The printed fabric consists of large lavender and coral blossoms with red, orange, light coral, and violet accents. The flowers are positioned close together in an all-over composition on a black ground. A white mannequin with a void of detail wears the dress facing slightly to the right showing arms with hands behind and showing legs with feet cut off in the photograph against a white ground.

Day Dress
floral printed cotton, trimmed with silk velvet.
Lent by Museum of the City of New York. Gift of Katherine Cortesi Armstrong,....
76.2016.7

There are 4 images of this object.

Capelet
cotton.
1961-141-2

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Portrait of Jazz age composer George Gershwin by artist William Auerbach-Levy. Gershwin is seated at the piano wearing a light blue bathrobe with purple, yellow, pink and red stripes. His fingers are on the piano as if playing but the keys are not delineated, there are only black and white bars where the keys should be. There is a small, squat green glass bottle on the right hand side of the piano and a short lamp with an oversized pale shade with light blue tassels on the left. Gershwin is pictured with either a five o’clock shadow or an early morning pre-shave growth of beard.

George Gershwin at Piano
oil on canvas.
Lent by Museum of the City of New York. Gift of Max D. Levy, 1967, 67.109.
76.2016.3

There are 2 images and 1 video of this object.

Evening Coat
velvet, silk, beads, metallic embroidery.
Lent by Museum of the City of New York. Gift of Mrs. Christian R. Holmes,....
76.2016.5

There are 2 images of this object.

Evening Dress
pearl, floss, metallic thread, silk, velvet.
Lent by Museum of the City of New York, Gift of Mrs. Fritz Kreisler, 1960,....
76.2016.4

There are 2 images of this object.

A beige and brown finely checked wool knit skirt suit. The jacket reaches below the waist to the top of the thighs and has a long paneled collar that appears to sit loosely. It is worn open over a pale salmon pink shirt which has a ribbon belt tied in a bow on our left side. The fluted, columnar skirt falls below the knees. The suit is worn by a white, faceless mannequin, whose right hand is placed on the hip to allow the jacket to be open revealing the shirt underneath.

Suit
wool.
Lent by Museum of the City of New York. Gift of Ann Andrews, 1972, 72.136.6A-B.
76.2016.6

There are 2 images of this object.

White leather pumps with black toe cap. There are two slightly wavy strips emanating from the toe on each side of the toecap. The heel is also black with black wavy strips coming from it to the top of the shoes.

Shoes, 1920s
leather.
Lent by Museum of the City of New York, Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Jesse I.....
76.2016.13

Pair Of Opera Pumps

Pair Of Opera Pumps
silk velvet, kid, rhinestones.
Lent by Museum of the City of New York.1982-21-1-a,b.
76.2016.10

Pair Of Evening Sandals

Pair Of Evening Sandals
silk, rhinestone, satin.
Lent by Museum of the City of New York. Gift of Mrs. Ralph K. Robertson,....
76.2016.9

Black cloche hat made of felt with a wide satin band. The ribbon has an off-center six-loop bow with two star-shaped embellishments highlighted with rhinestones.

Hat, mid-1920s
silk, fur, rhinestone, felt, satin.
Lent by Museum of the City of New York.Gift of Miss Mildred Sawyer, 1932,....
76.2016.8

Vertically-oriented, blue-hued painting centered on the Art Deco Chrysler Building and surrounding an historic New York skyline on a waterfront. The Building is portrayed majestically in bright, beaming white and appears to glow, serving as a beacon of light above drab, humble buildings and pointing upward to pierce clouds of glory. Rays of light cast downward from the sky incorporating subtle green shading; horizontal yellow lines low in the background illuminate the sun hidden behind the Building. The other, much shorter buildings are nonedescript save for dark, vertical and rectangular windows. On the water near the bottom right corner of the painting, a tugboat sprays water toward the pier on the opposite corner. A lone seagull flies adjacent to the skyscraper. The overall style of the painting is reminiscent of Impressionism, accentuating the light and with freely brushed color taking precedence over lines and contours.

Painting, View of the Chrysler Building, 1933
oil on canvas.
Lent by Museum of the City of New York. Gift of Collection of Robert R.....
76.2016.2

Capelet
cotton.
1961-141-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.