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Drawing, Dymaxion Car (Car #C-2), Body Framing, Plan, and Elevation
This is a Drawing. It was designed by R. Buckminster Fuller. It is dated 1933 and we acquired it in 1993. Its medium is pen and black ink on tracing paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
It is credited Museum purchase from Sarah Cooper-Hewitt and Pauline Cooper Noyes Funds.
- Drawing, The Ten-Deck House
- graphite on white wove paper .
- Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
- 1991-53-2
- Future Cycles
- USA.021
Its dimensions are
H x W: 91.9 x 135.7 cm (36 3/16 x 53 7/16 in.) Mat: 101.6 x 146 cm (40 in. x 57 1/2 in.)
It is inscribed
Stamped in black ink, lower right: 4 D COMPANY / EXPERIMENTAL DIVISION / BRIDGEPORT, CONN. U.S.A. / DYMAXION TRANSPORT / DESIGNERS / STARLING BURGESS / BUCKMINSTER FULLER … / CAR NO. C-2 DRAWING NO 21
Cite this object as
Drawing, Dymaxion Car (Car #C-2), Body Framing, Plan, and Elevation; Designed by R. Buckminster Fuller (American, 1895–1983); USA; pen and black ink on tracing paper; H x W: 91.9 x 135.7 cm (36 3/16 x 53 7/16 in.) Mat: 101.6 x 146 cm (40 in. x 57 1/2 in.); Museum purchase from Sarah Cooper-Hewitt and Pauline Cooper Noyes Funds; 1993-79-1
