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Drawing, Desk: Seating at Center, Center Drawer, Adjacent Drawer Stacked on Larger Drawer-Left and Right-with Superimposed Reverse U-Shaped Hardware
This is a Drawing. It was overseen (as design director) by Donald Deskey and from the office of Donald Deskey. It is dated 1929–1934 and we acquired it in 1988. Its medium is graphite on tracing paper. 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
26.4 × 33.2 cm (10 3/8 × 13 1/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Stamp in black ink, lower right: DONALD DESKEY / 145 WEST 57TH STREET / NEW YORK CITY; later stamp in black ink, upper left: DONALD DESKEY / ASSOCIATES
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite, upper right: WALNU; in graphite, lower center: 1 [circled] ORIENTAL W. & EBONIZED Bl.; in graphite, lower right: SCALE 1"=1'–0"; in graphite, lower right: 210; in red color pencil, lower right: P; in graphite, lower right: B / 7339 / 72"x34" [circled]; in graphite: dimensions
Cite this object as
Drawing, Desk: Seating at Center, Center Drawer, Adjacent Drawer Stacked on Larger Drawer-Left and Right-with Superimposed Reverse U-Shaped Hardware; Office of Donald Deskey (American, 1894–1989); USA; graphite on tracing paper; 26.4 × 33.2 cm (10 3/8 × 13 1/16 in.); Gift of Donald Deskey; 1988-101-1761
