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Drawing, Design for Saks Fifth Avenue Advertising Brochure Cover

Drawing, Design for Saks Fifth Avenue Advertising Brochure Cover
brush and black ink, stencilled, graphite on buff wove paper .
1975-11-64

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

Design uses the Hebrew Characters "Shin," painted 5 times across and 6 times down. Characters partly obliterated by splattered black ink and white gouache.

Drawing, Design for Hebrew Characters, ca. 1950
brush and gold paint, black ink, white gouache on tan paper.
Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives.
1993-121-45

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

Pattern created by repeating Hebrew character "Shin" (God) in alternating rows (4,3,4,3,3,3) across surface. Splotches of white gouache in the spaces between the characters.

Drawing, Fabric Design for Torah Mantle and Ark Lining, 1950
brush and gold paint, white gouache over graphite on tan wove paper.
Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives.
1993-121-46

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

Vertical bands woven in black and white.

Textile (USA), 1962
rayon, synthetic.
1963-19-1

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

Less than a half-drop repeat of small-scale patterned swatches from a sample book of the 1870s. Predominantly in shades of red and brown.

Textile (USA), 1970–79
cotton.
1977-44-2

This object was made by Mr. Condotti, Ltd..
This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Collage image with the background of a large white building floor. From left to right: A photograph of a woman, head tilted back with a pencil underneath it; an open notebook, text on the wall, and below a photograph of a landscape with dark and light blue skies and a person jumping; above, a film wheel and photo film; in the distance a piano, a statue, and a painting of a blue sky with clouds, in front of it a man jumping with one leg kicked out to the side; a small woman whispering into a large female head; above, a television floating next to a thumbtack and ruler; below, text on the wall and a black and white photo of a man with his hands on his hips. Lower right corner, a person's hand holding up the picture.

Poster, California Institute of the Arts, 1978
lithograph on paper.
Gift of Various Donors.
1981-29-25

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

Stylized rendering of bamboo blind or wall hanging. a) Gray horizontal bamboo stalks with green lacing on green ground; b) Gray horizontal bamboo stalks with pale green lacing on red ground.

Sidewall (USA), 1950
machine-printed.
Gift of Donald D. MacMillan.
1950-78-18-a,b

This object was made by M.H. Birge & Sons Co..
This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

On sky background, sign in red and white stripes: CAFFEINE / 14 / TWITCHY SONGS / of Angst and Nihilistic Ennui.

CD Case, Caffeine: 14 Twitchy Song, 1993
photographic reproduction on paper, plastic.
Gift of Barry Deck.
1996-75-1-a

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

Book jacket for The American Replacement of Nature, by William Irwin Thompson, published by Doubleday. Cover depicts part of the face of a smiling woman with blue eyes, short brown hair, and red lipstick, on a purple background with a large white flower in lower left corner. Text above, in black on white rectangle at top: The American Replacement / of Nature: William Irwin Thompson. In black on gray strip below white area: The Everyday Acts and Outrageous Evolution of Economic Life.

Book Cover, The American Replacement of Nature, 1991
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Steven Heller.
1996-74-137

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

Abstract all-over chevron design, with repeating diagonally-placed trapezoidal shapes, filling the space between the v's of the chevrons, in the upper right corner. The design is in green and blue with the brightest colors in the upper right.

Drawing, Design for a Rug, mid- 20th century
pastel, graphite on white wove paper mounted on brown wove paper.
Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives.
1993-121-64

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

Depiction of a blue car with a trailer attached, driving down a winding two-lane road in the countryside. Along the side of the road there is a section of fence, a road sign, and trees, along with plates bigger than houses holding various foods: soup, rice, corn, chicken, tomatoes, waffles, cake, and fish. Text above, in black on orange rectangle: Flavors and memories of America's hometowns/ SLOW FOOD; below, in black on orange rectangle: MICHAEL JAMES.

Book Cover, Slow Food
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Steven Heller.
1996-74-173

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

On silver patterned paper, a seven-branched blue menorah in middle of orange circle with wreath of yellow leaves framing circle. Residue of gold cellophane around edges.

Drawing, Design for Ark Curtain with Menorah Encircled by Wreath, for a St....
brush and gouache on silver patterned paper, gold cellophane on white cardboard.
Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives.
1993-121-41

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

Skinny black warps and wefts alternating skinny black with a much heavier, marled yarn of cream and mixed pastels.

Samples, Melange, 1983
wool, rayon, cotton, silk.
Gift of Cindia Cameron.
2011-21-7-a/d

This object was made by Knoll Textiles.
This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 11 images of this object.

Front cover design: Partial depiction of a man wearing a shirt, grey jacket and tie. Text at upper left, in black on red rectangle: THE/LOST/FATHER/A NOVEL; below, in black: MONA SIMPSON/Author of ANYWHERE BUT HERE.
Back cover design: Partial depiction of a man standing in the street, wearing creased navy slacks, black shoes and resting the top of a black umbrella on the street. Text above right, in black on blue: THE LOST FATHER/MONA SIMPSON; text above left, in black (book praise).

Book Cover, The Lost Father, 1992
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Steven Heller.
1996-74-38

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

Light blue knots with purple and light peach with bouclé.

Sample (USA), 1930–58
synthetic.
1958-142-57

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

Record sleeve depicts several cards with flags from different nations and their attributes, including India, Switzerland, and Uruguay.

Record Sleeve, Record Cover: Tsunami: Be Like That Newspaper, 1993
offset color lithograph on paper.
Gift of Simple Machines.
1995-20-5-a,b

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

Child's Tool Chest (USA), 1900–24

Child's Tool Chest (USA), 1900–24
wood, metal, paint, paper, ink.
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, 1977.1101.0167.
14.2012.1

There are 3 images of this object.

Black and white photograph depicting five women standing against a wall side by side with their arms crossed over their chests. They are all wearing Calvin Klein underwear and tank tops or t-shirts. Text superimposed over photograph in shades of grey and white: do you love / the dyke / in your life?

Poster, Do You Love the Dyke in Your Life? Dyke Action Machine, 1993
offset lithograph.
Gift of Carrie Moyer.
1995-141-2

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

Includes CD, jewel case, liner, and insert.

Cd, Pigeonhead, 1993
lithograph on paper, plastic.
Gift of Art Chantry.
1995-69-3-a/d

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

Sample of a woven window blind with rigid wefts. Warps are spaced and striped blue and green on one side and red on the other with gold in center. Wefts are alternately a half round, half-inch dowel and a full round one-eighth inch diameter white reed.

Window Blind Sample (USA), 1956
synthetic, metallic, wood.
Gift of the Estate of Dorothy (Liebes) Morin.
1972-75-9

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

Seventeen photographs of isometric renderings of floor plans and sectional views of the proposed New York Central Railroad office building, to be erected across Park Avenue, at East 46th St., New York, NY, adjoining the North end of Grand Central Terminal.

Album Page, Proposed New York Central Railroad Building, from Portfolio of...
printed on sensitized paper, bound in black morocco with gray moiré and papers.
Gift of Cooper Union Museum Picture Library.
1959-39-1-5

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

Jacket - Constructed of coated black, marbleized stock, notched in the center of the open edges. There is an incised outline of a circle on the front, just above center.

Book, front and back covers: Dark green cloth; spine bound in black cloth, which extends about two inches, front and back.
Front cover: Imprinted a/ Mystery, the a italicized; mystery in serif-style capitals; in gold. Centered below the title is a key design, also in gold.

Spine: With the object lying flat and back cover faced downward, the viewer may read the title, imprinted horizontally in a smaller version of the front cover type, accompanied by thin gold lines, gradually narrowing from the center outward. With the object standing up, M&Co/ Vol.1 may be viewed at bottom.

Inside front cover: Marbleized paper in tones of beige, bordered in black; divided into eight variously sized rectangular sections, separated by thick black lines. In small beige capitals, a quotation attributed to Marcus Aurelius makes its way around the border, beginning and ending at the top, left. The pattern continues in the imprinting of discrete aphorisms on the five vertical and two horizontal outlines dividing the sections. A long, narrow section (here called # 1) on the left, titled Pencil Making in/ Today's Modern World, in small capitals, continues in small upper and lower case with a description of pencil-making, separated every few lines by stylized illustrations composed of circles, dots and lines. Moving across, the next section (#2), equally long but narrower than #1, lists three different categories of measurement, headed by related line illustrations: a V-shaped compass; balance scales; cup and saucer. An eleven-line quotation from William Strunk, Jr.'s Elements of Style, imprinted in italics, comprises the adjacent section (#3), ending at the spine. Two sections underneath together match the width of the rectangle directly above; the smaller one (#4), on the left, quotes from Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, while the larger, on the right (#5), quotes from a [George] Meredith poem. The bottom row, left to right, features a quotation from Edmund Burke, in a sans serif type, in the smallest rectangle (#6); another, from Thomas Jefferson, in a serif style type, in the next largest rectangle (#7); and in the third and largest rectangle (#8), eleven lines, in sans serif type, about vulcanization.

Spine: In sans serif type, a quotation referring to dictionaries occupies the entire space. An ideogram of a dictionary opened on a bookstand appears between the second and third lines. The attribution to Jean Paul Sartre, The Words, and the date, 1964, are imprinted on three lines just above the lower edge.

Inside back cover: An uncovered wooden box is divided into eight sections corresponding to the configuration of the inside front cover. Sections #1, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8 are lined with the same beige-toned paper used on the inside front cover. Section #1, featuring an illustration of a tree in leaf, holds a dozen sharpened, shiny black pencils imprinted Cheers from M&Co in gold. Placed in the box with the points down and red rubber erasers up, they are contained in an ivory-colored paper wrapper, arguably featuring the object's most detailed design in relation to size. On the top left, in miniscule capitals, is A mixture of/ German and Mexican/ graphic and/ Bavarian clay, and in the same style on the top right, is Encased/ in a Western/ incense cedar/ shaft. Centered just below is a cross section of the inside of a pencil, followed underneath by 12/ Genuine No. 2/ Pencils (this last in larger and darker capitals than the rest)/ (Lat. Pencillus, lit. "little tail"). Centered underneath, completing the design, is an illustration of a partial view of the eraser end of a pencil shaft, overlaid by a banner imprinted Made in USA. Three horizontal arrows, labeled accordingly in small capitals, point to different pencil features: on the right, shiny/ brass ferule; on the left, above, handy/ rubber eraser; on the left, below, basic black/ finish. In Section #2, a metal ruler is placed on top of a paper wedge. The ruler is pierced by a hole, for hanging purposes, on the top short edge. On the recto, seven inch markings are imprinted in dark Roman numerals. Reading across, inch and metric equivalent measurements are imprinted in the spaces between the edge and one inch, one and two inches and five and six inches; M&Co within an oval between three and four inches and time=money between six and seven inches. The verso shows Roman numerals, at intervals of ten, marking metrical measurements up to 170. M&Co Labs (R) New York is imprinted between 100 and 130. The paper wedge is imprinted, top to bottom and justified on the right, This/ genuine M&Co/ 7 inch/ steel rule is/ packed in a clean/ environment/ and will show/ fingerprints/ as you begin/ to use it./ In time it will/ develop a/ slightly darker/ patina. Section #3 contains a stack of off-white paper, its top right edge sliced on the diagonal; its paper binder is imprinted in italics A Nice Stack of Paper Perfect for Writing Notes, separated between the words paper and perfect by a line illustration of a pair of crossed pencils. The section liner shows a design of a hand, extending to the left from a shirt cuff within a jacket sleeve edge, holding a pen, poised over a piece of paper on which part of a word has already been written.
Section #4 contains brass-colored clips in a box of the same material as the pencil wrapper, imprinted on a curve in small capitals about 75 clips/ they're bendable. Arrows extend from the center to line illustrations of clips, three at the top edge and three at the bottom, bent into various shapes and labeled accordingly. The section liner is imprinted vertically in a hand-drawn style 1+1 are 2. In Section #5, a round metal tin of Italian-manufactured mints, labeled Tabu/ bianco/, followed by the manufacturer's Italian-language motto, is placed on a liner imprinted with a line illustration of a leaf on a stem. Section #6 contains a two-holed, brass-colored, wedge-shaped pencil sharpener on top of a liner imprinted with a line illustration of a gavel or hatchet. In Section #7, a rectangular, off-white eraser is placed in a black wrapper, imprinted in the center with a design of a duck within a circle; the quotation, to err is human to forgive divine is imprinted in a curved format in unattached script type, beginning on the wrapper with the first four words and concluding on the liner. Section #8 contains a bunch of rubber bands bound at the center in a black paper wrapper; the liner is imprinted in the center with a design composed of the letters h and c connected by horizontal and vertical lines.

Labs, Books, A Mystery, 1989
offset lithography. pencils, metal, printed matter.
Gift of Tibor Kalman/ M & Co..
1993-151-91-a/aa

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

Includes CD, jewel case, liner, and insert.

Cd, Mark Lanegan Radio Sample, 1994
lithograph on paper, plastic.
Gift of Art Chantry.
1995-69-4-a/c

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

Likely a study for a wartime poster. A large foreshortened bronze key, floating in a gray cloudy sky, whose tongue forms the letter V and carries the national flags of the USSR, Great Britain, China, and the United States.

Drawing, Study for Wartime Poster, ca. 1939
pastel on thin paper.
Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
1963-39-591

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

Woven sample of allover light blue, blue, and gold silk, and metallic thread in gold woven through.

Handwoven Sample (USA), 1930–58
H x W: 24.6 x 14.5 cm (9 11/16 x 5 11/16 in.).
1958-142-31

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

Warp is thin black cotton, weft is strips of mostly synthetic leather of various widths, the widest being about one-half inch, in white, olive, beige and gray. These are separated by a few picks of beige cotton. Backed with cotton cheese-cloth, applied with an adhesive.

Sample (USA), 1959
cotton, leather, synthetic leather.
Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund.
1959-98-4

This object was made by Jack Lenor Larsen Incorporated.
This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Drawing, East Façade, Olana, 1872

Drawing, East Façade, Olana, 1872
brush and watercolor, pen and ink, graphite on paper.
Lent by Olana State Historic Site.
7.2012.3

A hand woven sample in shades of tan.

Sample (USA), ca. 1950
H x W: 20.5 x 20.5 cm (8 1/16 x 8 1/16 in.).
Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives.
1993-121-17

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

Poster, Superslims, 1993
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of SisterSerpents.
1995-18-1

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

Photograph of a group of figures: one girl and a “family” of plaster figures all reading at a picnic table with lunch. Above in black: Books are amusing companions.

Poster, Books Are Amusing Companions
lithograph on paper.
Gift of Various Donors.
1981-29-4

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

Print, Looking Up Broadway

Print, Looking Up Broadway
lithograph on paper.
1953-102-20

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

Small portrait showing a woman's eye and nose, resembling an out-of-focus black and white photograph. Study for Binary Traces: Kay (2007-33-1).

Study, Face Maps: Halfseen, 2005
cotton.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
2007-33-2

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

Vase (USA)
1976-58-1-a/f

This object was made by Tiffany and Co..
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

Book (facsimile), Astronomicum Caesareum, 1540

Book (facsimile), Astronomicum Caesareum, 1540
leather-bound paper boards, paper, string.
Courtesy of Smithsonian Libraries, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Library.
24.2012.5

There are 4 images of this object.

Cover design for "The Dissociation of Personality," by Morton Prince. Multiple black and white photographs of a woman's face in vertical bands conjoined by vertical blue bars. Photos do not directly align to create clear image. Printed text in white.

Book Cover, The Dissociation of Personality, 1956
lithograph on white wove paper.
Gift of Tamar Cohen and Dave Slatoff.
1993-31-30

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

Design for the backdrop used during the Prologue of "Checkmate". Design showing two disembodied hands and arms, one gray, one white floating horizontally in a blue and black sky. Connecting the two arms are a series of black and yellow lines, each terminating at a black dot on the arms. At center, a small gray and white rhombus.

Drawing, Stage Design: Prologue Backdrop, for "Checkmate", 1947
brush and gouache on cream paper.
Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
1963-39-271

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