Object Timeline

1950

  • Work on this object began.

1960

  • Work on this object ended.

1988

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

  • You found it!

Drawing, Design for Advertising, chairs and living room furnishings

This is a Drawing. It was made for (as the client) W. and J. Sloane. It is dated 1950–60 and we acquired it in 1988. Its medium is pen and black ink, wash over graphite, ruled border in graphite support: white illustration board. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

Its dimensions are

38.1 x 51 cm (15 x 20 1/16 in.) Mat: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamps: Stamped in black ink on verso: VAN DYKE/ILLUSTRATION BOARD/20X30 30X40/Single Thick Double Thick/THE BEE-KO COMPANY/NEW YORK

It is inscribed

Signed in pen and black ink at lower left of drawing: Max Walter Inscribed in graphite at right: 108/LC/on copper/copper lc 5 1/4; at lower right corner: 3056; along bottom 8 5/16 B.M. EXACTELY; at lower left; 641 [check mark] Inscribed in graphite on verso: 3212[underlined]/IDO/120 o u[underlined]/ also l copper lc/House & Garden Stock

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for Advertising, chairs and living room furnishings; Client: W. and J. Sloane (United States); USA; pen and black ink, wash over graphite, ruled border in graphite support: white illustration board; 38.1 x 51 cm (15 x 20 1/16 in.) Mat: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.); 1988-53-3

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