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Design for prefabricated house, likely for DevCor International Inc., exterior view in landscape. At left, modular prefab house nestled onto lot situated above boulders and lawn on shore of body of water. House clad in vertical siding and large floor-to-ceiling windows; main level with chimney at left and railed deck in front, and second story with small module and additional deck space. House accessed by stairway at left, which descends toward shore and small dock with moored launch. Landscape with boulders, shrubs, and deciduous trees frames left side of house. At right, in background, a snow-capped mountain swells up with smaller hills at its foot.

Drawing, Design for Prefabricated House, Exterior Perspective in Landscape, 1971
graphite on tracing paper mounted on white paper mounted on illustration board.
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-1518

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on June 15, 2015.

Design for prefabricated house, exterior perspective in landscape. At lower right, masonry retaining wall with landscape consisting of leafy shrubbery, a conifer tree at left and deciduous trees at right. Terraced steps lead up to modular prefab house with lower level consisting of three bays of upper ribbon windows and horizontal siding. Main level is rectangular volume with vertical siding and front deck with railing cantilevered over lower level. At right, second story floats atop cantilevered supports. Third story at center above main volume with additional railed deck space. Landscape recedes into darkness at right with one mountain in background at left. Signed “R Heston ‘71” in graphite at lower right.

Drawing, Design for Prefabricated House, Exterior Perspective in Landscape, 1971
graphite on tracing paper mounted on white paper mounted on illustration board.
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-1519

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on June 15, 2015.

Design for "The American Crisis" diorama for "The Triumph of Man" exhibit at the Travelers Insurance Companies’ Pavilion, New York World's Fair 1964–65. Battlefield landscape framed on either side by damaged tree trunks. In the foreground, rock wall crumbles at left, revealing in its void the dead bodies of three Union solders behind a canon, while at right a Confederate soldier and his horse lay dead. Just before the canon entrenchment, a tattered American flag waves. In the mid- and background, additional soldiers lay dead or dying; at right, a Union officer investigates the body of a Confederate. At right, a lone white house. Signed in brown gouache, lower left: “Gordon Johnson”.

Drawing, Design for "The American Crisis" Diorama for "The Triumph of Man"...
brush and gouache on board.
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-1620

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on June 16, 2015.

Drawing, Textile Design: Stylized Forms

Drawing, Textile Design: Stylized Forms
brush and brown and cream gouache, graphite on off-white wove paper.
1975-11-154

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on May 19, 2015.

Drawing, Design for Blue Bathroom Mat with Sea Motif

Drawing, Design for Blue Bathroom Mat with Sea Motif
brush and blue, black, beige, terra cotta, and pink gouache, graphite on gray....
1975-11-53

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on May 19, 2015.

Drawing, Design for Diorama: Bristol-Myers Company, New York World's Fair 1939–40

Drawing, Design for Diorama: Bristol-Myers Company, New York World's Fair...
brush and gouache, white conte crayon on heavy black wove paper.
1975-11-69

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on June 24, 2015.

Drawing, On-Site Manufacture of Foam-Constructed Prefabricated Apartment House

Drawing, On-Site Manufacture of Foam-Constructed Prefabricated Apartment House
brush and watercolor, brush and gouache, brush and oil paint and graphite on....
1988-101-1473

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on June 15, 2015.

Design for monorail for MacArthur Airport, Long Island, New York. Perspective shows monorail in landscape. At left, stylized H-shaped supports recede into background. Monorail track suspended from supports and extends diagonally across surface. Below the rail, missile-like oblong conveyance with pointed nose is suspended; its wings, of which there are three pairs, jut out at a slight incline from main body. Shallow windows are found at top of vehicle, while below numbers 3, 6, and 5 (circled) alternate with what appear to be cargo hatches across its lower plane. Near nose, fuselage also inscribed with “NXO P3”.

Drawing, Design for Monorail, MacArchur Airport, Long Island, NY, 1968
graphite, white conte crayon on tracing paper laid down on gray wove paper....
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-1510

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on June 15, 2015.

Drawing, Design for Detergent Dispenser

Drawing, Design for Detergent Dispenser
pastel crayon, airbrush, graphite on beige wove paper mounted on illustration....
1988-101-1528

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on June 24, 2015.

Drawing, Design for Union Carbide Building, Exterior Perspective, 1965
brush and gouache, blue pastel crayon, pen and black ink, magic marker,....
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-1612

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on June 16, 2015.

Design for "Taming of a Continent" Diorama for the "The Triumph of Man" Exhibit at the Travelers Insurance Companies’ pavilion, New York World’s Fair 1964–65. Exterior perspective shows log cabin at right with accoutrements of pioneer life: bucket, broom, chopping block, axe. Yard bordered by split-rail fence, inside of which a couple with infant and additional man with axe in midground wave to figures on sort of river punt. Body of water curves into background where its shores are dense with conifers. Signed vertically in white gouache, lower right: “Gordon Johnson”.

Drawing, Design for "Taming of a Continent" Diorama for "The Triumph of Man"...
brush and gouache on board.
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-1619

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on June 16, 2015.

Design for Half Moon Bay Hotel on Montego Bay in Jamaica. Low structure sweeps across width of illustration board: main volume runs almost perpendicular to viewer and has shallow-sloped roof whose over at right supported by wood beams and tresses. From this volume extends a covered carport with similar roof, possibly in glass or other translucent material, and supported by slender inverted tripods. To the left of this, a retaining wall extends to the edge of the picture plane, half-concealing a perpendicular wing with lower, similar roof and no overhang at front. At center, a more interior garden wall with regular, diamond-like apertures. Landscape is lush with sod, shrubbery, palms, and deciduous trees. Circular driveway. Signed “S C Reese” in graphite at lower right.

Drawing, Design for Half Moon Bay Hotel, Montega Bay, Jamaica, 1954
pastel crayon on illustration board.
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-1624

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on June 16, 2015.

Drawing, Presentation Drawing for Elsie's Restaurant, Exterior View

Drawing, Presentation Drawing for Elsie's Restaurant, Exterior View
brush and watercolor, brush and gouache, conte crayon, pen and ink, graphite....
1988-101-1991

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on June 15, 2015.

Drawing, Textile Design: Leaf Pattern

Drawing, Textile Design: Leaf Pattern
brush and green and brown gouache, graphite, white chalk on buff wove paper.
1975-11-157

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on May 19, 2015.

Drawing, Textile Design: Chevron Pattern

Drawing, Textile Design: Chevron Pattern
brush and orange and cream gouache on gray illustration board.
1975-11-158

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on May 19, 2015.

Design for bathroom mat with sea motif. Circular format with blue background at the center of which a white biomorphic shape (possibly a sand dollar?) is superimposed by a starfish, a seahorse, a length of coral, and a conch shell with dots, all in hues of salmon, cornflower, black, lighter blue, and white. Signed “DESKEY” in white pastel at lower center.

Drawing, Design for Blue Bathroom Mat with Sea Motif, ca. 1930
brush and blue, white, black and pink gouache, graphite on gray paperboard.
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1975-11-49

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on May 19, 2015.

Design for monorail for MacArthur Airport, Long Island, New York. Perspective drawing of conceptual “monorail” that actually employs two parallel tracks. These are seen extending forward from background (lower left) where three V-shaped supports elevate rail. In foreground, closer depiction of supports shows convex base and greater detail of ladder-like structure of each arm, which terminates at top in broad wings that meet the rail. The conveyance itself is oblong, with rear wings extending from the bottom of fuselage to meet tracks and glide along them. Vehicle appears aerodynamic with low glass windows at top and various hatches across bottom and possibly a conveyer belt at front. At center right, fuselage inscribed with “NOS X5” and “13 44.” Signed “R Heston” at lower right.

Drawing, Design for Monorail, MacArthur Airport, Long Island, NY, 1968
graphite, white conte crayon on tracing paper laid down on gray wove paper....
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-1508

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on June 15, 2015.

Design for monorail station for MacArthur Airport, Long Island, New York. Perspective describes monorail terminal or depot wherein a monorail train is suspended from its track at right while at left, a stylized tractor bed transports modular cargo bins. At left, vertical pillars support beams that traverse the depot above; at center, there appears to be a smaller, secondary vehicle or utility device suspended. At left, an enclosed building is perched atop the pillars/beams, perhaps some sort of control or observation center. In the background, at center, an additional monorail is suspended and surrounded by figures. Signed “R Heston” in graphite at lower right.

Drawing, Design for Monorail Station, MacArthur Airport, Long Island, NY, 1968
graphite, white conte crayon on tracing paper laid down on gray wove paper....
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-1513

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on June 15, 2015.

Design for the United States pavilion, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce, at the 1960 Thessaloniki International Fair. Exterior perspective shows pavilion situated on corner lot with figures populating surrounding street, sidewalk, and stairway to structure. At center, a blue and green A-frame structure is perched on its corners and supported by white structuring framing. At entrance, “USA” sign supported by poles running from ground to overhanging eave. Beyond the A-frame entry portal, structure is long and low with additional vertical structural supports receding backward; at right, a series of triangular rooves can be seen behind a wall of green and blue alternating panels. Also at right, an angled masonry wall jags up behind a planted bed with retaining wall; form this garden rises a pole with rectangular panels, each with one parabolic-curved outerside edge, in alternating white, blue, and terra cotta. Farther right, Greek and American flags wave with others in the distance. At left, additional flags, including an additional American flag, wave in front of a square gray structure.

Drawing, Design for United States Pavilion, 1960 Thessaloniki International...
brush and gouache, graphite on board.
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-1621

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on June 16, 2015.

Design for the United States pavilion, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce, for the 1960 Thessaloniki International Fair. Exterior perspective shows pavilion situated on corner lot; figures populate the surrounding streets, sidewalk, and steps leading up to the structure. At right, series of parabolically-curved panels, alternating blue and indigo, project outward from on an off-white background (possibly stucco) with a solid blue panel at far right. To the left, this wall opens up to provide access to pavilion interior, supported by clusters of rods and capped by white and red tent-like roof. A fountain spouts in front of entryway, and Greek and American flags wave to its left. Further left, rectilinear, single-story structure juts out and is adorned with letters spelling “USA” in blue on front and side. This structure appears to extend leftward from the rear, with additional red and white tented area at far left. In the background, modular/International-Style structures rise from behind trees.

Drawing, Design for United States Pavilion at the 1960 Thessaloniki...
brush and gouache on board.
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-1622

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on June 16, 2015.

Design for end table with lacquer finish. At upper right, perspective shows rectangular cabinet with one curved front corner. Inside shelf mirrors structure of outer support and tabletop, with curved front corner and right-angled support at right. Entire object rests on shallower base in contrasting material. At lower left, plan and front and side elevations with dimensions. Inscribed with Deskey No. 7285.

Drawing, Design for End Table, 1929–1934
graphite on tracing paper.
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-861

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

Tables And Seating, Concentric and Decentric, 2018

Tables And Seating, Concentric and Decentric, 2018
recycled beverage carton composite panels (rewall), resin-infused paper....
Courtesy of Mary Ping.
s-e-3078

There are 2 images of this object.

Napkins, 2018
water-repellent cotton.
s-e-3079

Elevations and plans for bedroom suite of George C. and Eleanor Hutton Rand apartment, Upper left corner is elevation of wall left of bed showing clear glass shelves at left, and radio and night table at right. Above shelves and night table is large clock. Arms of clock are of neon tubing, with a clear polished mirror as background. Punties are in place of numerals on clock. Elevation at right shows bed at center, flanked by night tables on each side. Drawing shows top cabinet of each night table in lowered position. Floor plan at lower left shows positioning of bed, clear glass shelves, radio and night tables. Furniture arranged over a deep piled rug.

Drawing, George C. and Eleanor Hutton Rand Apartment: Bedroom Suite with...
graphite on tracing paper.
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-1841

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

V-S at upper right corner, folded (RH Oct. 3, 2018)

Drawing, Chest: Five Drawers, Rectangular Pulls, One per Drawer, Centered,...
graphite, red color pencil on tracing paper.
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-1791

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on May 14, 2015.

Fantastic flowers in blue, orange, and purple, some resembling sea-shells, are attached to root tendrils with branches and leaves. Verso: sketch of a waistcoat pocket with floral decoration.

Drawing, Design for an Embroidered (or Woven) Field, ca. 1785
brush and gouache on cream paper; verso: graphite.
Gift of Catharine Oglesby.
1958-120-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on November 19, 2015.

Printed length with a large repeat of a leafy hibiscus plant with bright red flowers and leaves in multiple shades of green on a pale gray ground.

Textile, ca. 1950
cotton warp, viscose rayon and cellulose diacetate weft.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
2018-23-1

There are 2 images of this object.

Drawing, Design for a Radio Cabinet

Drawing, Design for a Radio Cabinet
graphite on tracing paper.
1988-101-1753

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on May 14, 2015.

Design for bed seen in front and partial side elevations. At left, front elevation shows bed with planar head- and footboard, the former taller than the latter. These are supported by horizontal rectangular base. At right, broken side elevation shows that symmetrical base has divots at front and rear to hold head- and footboard. Margins ruled in graphite. Inscribed with Deskey No. 7062.

Drawing, Design for Bed, ca. 1934
graphite on tracing paper.
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-28

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on April 29, 2015.

Drawing, Design for Bed

Drawing, Design for Bed
graphite on tracing paper.
1988-101-31

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on April 29, 2015.

Drawing, Design for Bed

Drawing, Design for Bed
graphite, orange color pencil on tracing paper.
1988-101-38

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on April 29, 2015.

Design for bed. Above, perspective shows bed with tall planar headboard and shorter planar footboard, sheathed at right by rectangular L-shaped plane of contrasting material, the lower section of which extends across object width. Bed is supported at front by two U-shaped feet and at rear by headboard, which extends to ground level. Side rails support mattress with bed linens. Below, at left, front elevation provides additional details about layered composition of materials. Margins ruled in graphite. Inscribed with Deskey No. 7392.

Drawing, Design for Bed, September 30, 1933
graphite on tracing paper.
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-39

This object was made by K..
This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on April 29, 2015.

Design for bed. Above, perspective indicates planar headboard extending to the ground; planar rails connect head- and footboards. Footboard is asymmetrical: central panel framed above, below, and at right by slightly indented secondary contrasting material that stops short of rounded left edge. Footboard supported by foot that runs its width and echoes its curved or angled corners. Below, at left and right, front and broken side elevation provide dimensions. Inscribed with Deskey No. 7393. Margins ruled in graphite.

Drawing, Design for Bed, 1929–1934
graphite on tracing paper.
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-40

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on April 29, 2015.

Design specs for bed in thuya and white lacquer. At upper left, broken plan with dimensions shows bed with rectilinear headboard, and footboard with rounded corners. Below at left, front elevation describes headboard materials, composition, and bed components, while at lower right, broken side elevation provides additional dimensions and side rail specs. Margins ruled in graphite. Inscribed with Deskey No. 7522 Spec. and note to refer to Deskey No. 7522 for further details.

Drawing, Design for Bed: Details, 1929–1934
graphite on tracing paper.
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-46

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on April 29, 2015.

Drawing, Design for Bed

Drawing, Design for Bed
graphite on tracing paper.
1988-101-54

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on April 29, 2015.

Design for bed seen in front and broken side elevation. At left, front elevation for bed with planar head- and foot-boards; rectilinear frame runs width of footboard. At right, broken elevation indicates headboard is taller than footboard, and that frame at bottom of object includes U-shaped feet that run perpendicular to object length; frame runs length of bed and is symmetrical. Margins ruled in graphite. Inscribed with Deskey No. 7945.

Drawing, Design for Bed, 1934–1935
graphite on tracing paper.
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-62

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
It was most recently photographed on April 29, 2015.