Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Our curators have highlighted 8 objects that are related to Sidewall (possibly USA), 1920–30.

Design for textile titled “Party Ashtray”. White cigarettes with red-orange glowing ends emit blue wisps of smoke arranged across black ground.

Drawing, Design for Textile: "Party Ashtray", ca. 1936
white, blue, and red-orange pastel on black wove paper .
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1975-11-20

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Study for an advertisement for Diplomat Cigarettes. At center, a figure at a table wearing a black tuxedo and a white shirt with a red sash across their chest. The top of the figure’s head is cut off, but a curly, black moustache is depicted on the figure’s upper lip. The figure holds a cigarette in their left hand. On the table, a brandy snifter and a pack of cigarettes decorated with a similar red stripe on the packaging.

Drawing, Study for an Advertisement, Diplomat Cigarettes, August 1948
brush and gouache, graphite on thick white paper.
Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
1963-39-722

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Man and woman dancing, two men in tuxedos dancing, and a cigarette girl, against background of clouds, printed on silver ground.

Sidewall - Sample, Three O'Clock in the Morning, 1946–47
machine-printed paper.
Gift of Henry H. Allman.
1947-81-10

This object was made by United Wallpaper, Inc..
This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Black Cat Cigarettes

Matchsafe (USA), after 1904
plated metal.
Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener.
1978-146-6

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Poster design for Eastman and Son. At center, a harlequin balancing rhomboids in one hand and holding a staff or bat in the other. Behind the figure, abstracted silhouettes of the figure in shades of yellow and black. Above in different colors: EASTMAN / AND / SON; below in blue ink: SINCE / 1802 / BRANCHES / EVERYWHERE. At bottom, in red ink: THE LONDON DYERS / AND CLEANERS.

Poster, Eastman and Son, The London Dyers and Cleaners, 1927
offset lithograph on paper, lined.
Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
1963-39-43

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Stylized print of harlequin playing a stringed instrument for a woman in a hat, set against a background of buildings, with an irregular vertically striped border. Printed in green and black on white, with green as the visual background.

Scarf (USA), ca. 1930
silk.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Florence Mathews.
1996-21-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Pulcinella seated at left wearing black half mask, peaked hat, gray pantaloons, playing a guitar; Harlequin standing at right playing a lute. Black background with a half moon and colored stars as arcade.

Print, Pulcinella and Harlequin from the portfolio Fleurs et masques, 1930
pochoir, graphite (?) on wove paper.
Gift of Elizabeth M. Riley.
1973-80-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

A diamond trellis or harlequin design with multi-color diamonds alternating with bright bright yellow diamonds. Printed in black, brown and metallic gold on a bright yellow ground.

Sidewall, 1922–30
machine-printed paper.
Gift of W. H. S. Lloyd Co., Inc..
1930-18-1-i

This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.