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1930

  • Work on this object began.

1939

  • Work on this object ended.

1988

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

  • You found it!

Drawing, Design for Port Ivory Private Airplane

This is a Drawing. It was from the office of Donald Deskey Associates and made for (as the client) Procter & Gamble. It is dated 1930–1939 and we acquired it in 1988. Its medium is brush and red, blue, black, and white gouache, brush and black ink, airbrush, pen, red pencil on white construction board. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Donald Deskey. It is credited Gift of Donald Deskey.

Its dimensions are

31.9 x 49 cm (12 9/16 x 19 5/16 in.) Mat: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.)

It has the following markings

Embossed circle, lower right [partially visible]: ...MORE ...ER SIDE [holly leaf at center]; gray adhesive label, lower left: DONALD DESKEY / ASSOCIATES

It is inscribed

Inscribed in blue ball point pen, lower left: P & G; in graphite on verso, lower right: Proctor + Gamble

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for Port Ivory Private Airplane; Office of Donald Deskey Associates; Client: Procter & Gamble; USA; brush and red, blue, black, and white gouache, brush and black ink, airbrush, pen, red pencil on white construction board; 31.9 x 49 cm (12 9/16 x 19 5/16 in.) Mat: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.); Gift of Donald Deskey; 1988-101-1474

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