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Something Old, Something New
Kristina ParsonsPoster, International Design Festival, Osaka, 1983. Designed by Yusaku Kamekura. Gift of Sara and Marc Benda, 2009-20-16.Yusaku Kamekura achieved what most only hope to accomplish in...
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A Wonderful Red in the Sunlight
Gail S. DavidsonDrawing, "Fatehpur Sikri" Birbal's Palace, India, March 19, 1881. Lockwood de Forest. Gifted by a Private Santa Barbara Collector, courtesy of Sullivan Goss - An American Art Gallery,...
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Decorative Views of Technology
Gregory HerringshawSidewall, possibly USA, ca. 1850. Machine-print on paper. Gift of Donald Carpentier, n-w-79From telescopes to the Erie Canal, to planes, trains and automobiles, technological...
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A Bright Idea
Carolina Valdes-LoraPoster: IBM, Every Man with an Idea Has at Least Two or Three Followers. Ken White (American, 1935-1985). Gift of Various Donors, 1981-29-442Over a century ago, IBM founder,...
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Staying in the Loop
Cynthia TropeR-72, “Toot-A-Loop” Portable Radio, ca. 1970. Manufactured by National Panasonic Radio brand, Matushita Electrical Industrial Co., Ltd., Japan. Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler,...
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No Shell Shock with this Design
Gregory HerringshawSidewall, Shells, 1968-69. Frederick Bradley. Made by Woodson Wallpapers, Inc. New York, New York, USA; Screenprint on paper. Gift of Woodson Wallpapers, Inc., 1969-54-3The Shells...
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Rising Currents
Gail S. DavidsonPrint, New Urban Ground, Proposal for Rising Currents Exhibition, 2009. ARO (founded 1993) and dlandstudio (founded 2005). Museum purchase from Architecture Research Office and from...
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Not Only Ours
Jennifer JohnsonSampler, 1825. Embroidered by Catharine Parsells. Embroidered in silk on linen. Bequest of Gertrude M. Oppenheimer, 1981-28-135The Quakers, or the Society of Friends, played a primary...
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Children's Frieze Makes Learning Fun
Gregory Herringshaw“Hunting” Frieze, 1905. Cecil Aldin1935). Produced by Arthur Sanderson & Sons, Ltd., London, England. Block printed on ingrain paper. Gift of Standard Coated Products,...
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Treasured Tresses- Hair Jewelry Pattern Books
Elizabeth Broman(L:) Charles T. Menge's Price List of Ornamental Hair Jewelry and Device Work, nos. 32 and 34 John Street, New York. Charles T. Menge, (b. ca . 1873). Smithsonian Libraries. q NK6076...
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The Astronomer
Laura CamerlengoTextile, ca. 1780.In the style of Jean-Baptiste Pillement. Painted and gilded silk. Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt, 1931-48-100Illustrated accounts of travels to the Far East served...
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Shopping carts crashing (servers)
Sebastian Chan"Shopping Cart at Willets Point" by Seven Train Photos, 2005, CC-BY-NC-SA.In post-apocalyptic cinema the slow sweeping shot of a half-submerged shopping cart in a river is a standard -...
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Hercules Supports the World, and the Wall
Gregory HerringshawDado, France, 1810–15. Block-printed on handmade paper. Gift of Teresa Kilham, 1955-86-2This is a wallpaper dado, in the neoclassical style which would be hung at the bottom of the...
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A Permutation Unfolding
Maleyne SyracuseTextile, 1998. Eve Andrée Laramée. Jacquard woven cotton, rayon, metallic thread. Gift of Eve Andrée Laramée, 1999-28-1.Eve Andrée Laramée is an installation sculptor whose work...
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Colors within colors
Matilda McQuaidP.Kasuri No. 46, 2007. Jun Tomita. Woven choma. Gift of Sheila Hicks and browngrotta arts, 2007-52-1-a,bJun Tomita is a Japanese textile artist who has worked with the traditional dyeing...
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Lux in Tenebris/ Artists are Dogs
Pamela LawtonMaquette, Bookcover, Dylan Thomas, Portrait of a Young Artist as a Young Dog, 1901–50. Alvin Lustig for New Directions Press. Gift of Susan Lustig Peck, 2001-29-3.Lux in Tenebris, Latin...
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Reflecting Well
Matilda McQuaidTextile, Reflecting Well, 2003. Junichi Arai. Polyester and aluminum. Gift of Masako Dempo Yuki, 2004-23-1.Reflecting Well, by Junichi Arai, continues his life-long investigation into...
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When in Rome
Gregory HerringshawSidewall, When in Rome, 1958; Designed by Clarence Hawking for Denst and Soderland Chicago, Illinois, USA; Screen printed on silk; Gift of Denst and Soderlund, Inc., 1959-130-1This...
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Still Life with Canary, or A Hungry Cat
Gregory HerringshawFirescreen, France, 1825–40; Block-printed on handmade paper; Gift of Marian Hague, 1942-73-1While the genre of still life painting dates back to ancient times, it had emerged as a...
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What Would the Medici Do?
Sarah GibbonsPrint, From a Series of Naval Battles for Wedding Festivities of Cosimo Il de'Medici, Ship of Neptune, 1608. Etched by Remigio Cantagallina (Italian, 1582 - 1635) after Giulio Parigi,...
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