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Drawing, Design for Carpet: Still Life with Musical Instruments, Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Ruth Reeves and from the office of Donald Deskey and made for (as the client) Radio City Music Hall. We acquired it in 1975. Its medium is brush and gouache, graphite on cream wove paper, lined. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
In 1932, Deskey received his best-known commission, that of designing the interiors of Radio City Music Hall in New York City. An enormous undertaking, Deskey brought in many artists and designers to assist with the project. Ruth Reeves, whose wall-hangings Deskey had frequently used in furnishing his interiors, created textiles for the music hall’s interior. This carpet design adapts the cubist style of Deskey’s decorative screens and incorporates abstracted instruments—guitar, accordion, and saxophone—that suit the purpose of the hall as well as the spirit of the American jazz age.
This object was donated by Donald Deskey.
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- brush and brown, tan, and purple gouache, graphite on heavy cream wove paper.
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Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for Carpet: Still Life with Musical Instruments, Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY; Designed by Ruth Reeves (American, 1892–1966); USA; brush and gouache, graphite on cream wove paper, lined; 1975-11-73
"From Monday On," Bix Beiderbecke & Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra (1928)
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This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.