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An octagonal domed mausoleum in the Renaissance style, stands on a terrace, approached by a wide flight of steps flanked by potted trees.

Drawing, Rendering for Bliss Family Mausoleum, 1901
brush and watercolor, graphite on heavy drawing board.
Gift of Anonymous Donor.
1957-61-1

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

In the shape of a trapezoid, poster announces gallery exhibition of artist Douglas W. Schmidt in New York City. Poster depicts compilation of objects including a photograph of a man, colorful discs, an abstracted face of a woman, photographs of buildings, a woman’s manicured hand, geometric shapes in bright neon colors, some paint splatters. Below on white jagged ground, text in black: DOUGLAS W SCHMIDT / 1501 Broadway / Room 1606 / New York, New York / 10036

Poster, Douglas W. Schmidt, 1980
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of April Greiman and Jayme Odgers.
1991-69-106

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

An exterior view of two buildings and a tree are reproduced on an interior wall, printed in blue at left. A closed red door is adjacent to the scene. Blue text at right. Calendar printed in red at lower right. Company's name in red across bottom of blotter.

Blotter, Bruynzeel's éépaneel's deur, februari 1939, 1939
offset lithograph on white wove paper, mounted on blue blotting paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
2004-1-5

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

At right, narrow doorway entrance beneath monumental, vertical architectural element (with long, central "stripe" of blue tile/glass/marble (?) embellishment) and semi-circular marquee. To left of door are empty windowed storefront vitrines, surmounted by stepped entablature. Within this vitrine area is a decorated central panel or door. Above the vitrine section and to the left of overdoor architectural element, are diagonal panels forming a trianglular-shaped cladding for the building. Pedestrians, rendered in blue watercolor, are at left of store window and to right of doorway. Image bordered by graphite framing lines.

Drawing, Design for a Shopfront with Triangular Facade, ca. 1925
brush and white and beige gouache, blue and brown watercolor, graphite on....
Gift of Maureen Cogan.
1999-39-3

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

Drawing, The City at Night, Descent into the Streets

Drawing, The City at Night, Descent into the Streets
lithographic crayon on heavy cream wove paper.
1980-39-1

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

Poster, American Airlines to New York, 1948
offset lithograph on white wove paper.
Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
1963-39-139

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

This Soviet film poster for the German 1927 movie "Die Symphonie der Grossstadt" ["Symphony of a Metropolis"], depicts a mechanical man composed of a head with a movie camera for one eye, a watch on his neck, with one arm typing on a typewriter and the other arm in the form of a pen. This figure is placed in front of a flat and tilted skyscraper. The title of the film, in red, runs diagonally along the lower edge while the movie credits in white parallel the diagonal building.

Poster, Symphony of a Big City, 1928
lithograph on off-white wove paper.
Museum purchase from Drawings and Prints Council and General Acquisitions....
2008-1-1

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

Drawing, The Ten-Deck House

Drawing, The Ten-Deck House
graphite on white wove paper .
1991-53-2

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

Pedestrian pathways and rail tracks run through the lower-right and lower-left of the composition, while the twin Gothic arches of the Brooklyn Bridge (1869-1883) tower loom up in the foreground. The bridge's cable arrangement forms a distinctive weblike pattern. The skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan can be seen in the background. From left to right: Singer Building (built in 1908, demolished in 1968), Woolworth Building (1913), World Building (built in 1890, demolished in 1955), Municipal Building (1914), and the Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse (1933).

Print, Brooklyn Bridge, ca. 1950
lithograph on white paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor G. Hewitt.
1951-43-6

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

Taking the format of an antique wallpaper, contemporary images from magazines and newspapers are cut-and-pasted into the repeating landscape vignettes. The images include soldiers at Kosovo Liberation Army checkpoint, a member of the Swedish Explosive Ordinance Disposal platoon engaged in mine sweeping while a farmer plows, and British troops clearing the fields after Protestants had set camp after being blocked from marching through a Catholic neighborhood. Printed in shades of blue.

Sidewall, Clearing Fields, 2001
digitally printed.
Gift of Francesco Simeti.
2002-24-1

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

A schematic view of lower Manhattan showing additional shoreline in different shades of green. Outer and inner dotted lines.

Print, New Urban Ground, Proposal for Rising Currents Exhibition, Museum of...
digital print on archival paper.
Museum purchase from Architecture Research Office and from General....
2013-52-1

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There are 2 images of this object.

A simply constructed three story building in the shape of a Z, signifying the Zurich museum is the single element of this poster; the only ornament is the lettering running over the flat roof. Executed in black, gray and blue with white lettering.

Poster, Schweizerische Stadtbau-Ausstellung (Swiss Urban Planning Exhibit), 1928
lithograph on white wove paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Eric Kellenberger Collection, Switzerland and....
2008-33-1

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

Sampler (USA)
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
1941-69-4

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Drawing, Aqua Tower, Chicago, Illinois, USA: Study Exploring Chromatic Strata, ca. 2005

Drawing, Aqua Tower, Chicago, Illinois, USA: Study Exploring Chromatic...
graphite, color pencil on white paper.
Gift of Studio Gang Architects.
2014-4-4

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

A perspective view of lower Manhattan featuring green areas of marshes and marina.

Print, New Urban Ground, Proposal for Rising Currents Exhibition, Museum of...
digital print on archival paper.
Museum purchase from Architecture Research Office and from General....
2013-52-2

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

Design for an American Airlines poster encouraging travel to Chicago. Aerial view of the cityscape of Chiago showing a river running through the middle of skyscrapers, including a depiction of what is likely the Wrigley Building.Text in white and black, upper center: AMERICAN AIRLINES; in white, lower right: CHICAGO.

Drawing, Design for "Chicago", ca. 1948
brush and gouache on paper, mounted on thick white paper.
Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
1963-39-162

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

Print, Looking Up Broadway

Print, Looking Up Broadway
lithograph on paper.
1953-102-20

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

Printed textile with an abstract design of massed city buildings, in green,gold and white.

Textile, Metropolis, 1955
linen.
Gift of Henry C. and Eleanor Kluck.
1985-84-4

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Drawing depicts two skyscrapers in lower Manhattan.

Drawing, Sketches of New York Skyscrapers, ca. 1915
graphite, red crayon on tracing paper.
Gift of Henry O. Milliken.
1937-51-4

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

Drawing, View of Beirut (?)

Drawing, View of Beirut (?)
brush and oil paint, graphite on cardboard.
1917-4-428

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Landscape drawing of an aquaduct and building with a tower, possibly a church. Two men walk along a path leading to the town.

Drawing, Landscape with Mountain Town, 1760–80
pen and ink, brush and bistre wash on paper.
Museum purchase through gift of various donors.
1901-39-718

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

Print, Trinity Church from Wall Street

Print, Trinity Church from Wall Street
etching and drypoint in sepia ink on paper.
1953-45-1

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

Daimyo procession crossing trestle-bridge over river from left to right. Upper half, village, castle, group of low hills and mountain.

Woodblock Print, Okazaki, Tenshin Bridge, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the...
woodblock print (ukiyo-e) on mulberry paper (washi) .
Gift of Mary Rutherford Jay.
1948-134-39

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

View from below of the Flatiron building in New York City on white background. Imprinted in red ink, upper left: The Rise/of an /American /Architecture; in blue ink, upper center: Now/through/October 4th/1970; in grey ink, upper right: The Metropolitan/Museum of Art/1870/1970. In gray, lower right: Admission / to this exhibition and to / 19th-Century America: / $1.00, students 50©; / free Mondays

Poster, The Rise of an American Architecture, 1970
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Arnold Saks.
1991-69-120

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

Flat marli. Concentric bands, in gold: plain, advancing wave motif, and scattered stars; enclosing view of the Sèvres porcelain factory in colors after an 1817 drawing by Achille Etna Michallon.

Plate depicting Sèvres Porcelain Factory Plate, 1822
hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold leaf.
Gift of George B. and Georgiana L. McClellan.
1936-13-32

This object was made by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

A back lit, dramatic dark sculptural form, rectangular at base tapering into points surrounding a tall central shaft.

Drawing, Study for Maximum Mass Permitted by the 1916 New York Zoning Law,...
black crayon, stumped; brush and black ink over photostat, varnish on....
Gift of Mrs. Hugh Ferriss.
1969-137-1

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

Drawing, Design for a Skyscraper

Drawing, Design for a Skyscraper
graphite with fixative on tracing paper mounted on cardboard .
1952-15-13

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

Horizontal silk hanging with a view of Manhattan as seen from the East River: the river with working boats in foreground, industrial buildings with smokestacks and warehouses in middle ground, tall skyscrapers (two under construction) in background against sky. Top and bottom borders have bridges and storage drums; side borders have skeletal buildings. In olive drab, light blue-green, dull orange, bright and dull yellows, and reserved ivory ground. Lined with bright blue.

Hanging, New York Waterfront, 1926–53
silk.
Gift of Lydia Bush-Brown.
1974-23-6

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

Poster design for the London Underground, advertising the London Musuem of Practical Geology (which can be reached by the railway). At center, a black and grey jagged abstracted "stibnite" rising out of a low jagged crystal-like form. Above, in pink and grey: LONDON / MUSEUM / OF / PRACTiCAL / GEOLOGY; below: STIBNITES / PICCADILLY CIRCUS / JERMYN STREET. At bottom: TRAVEL BY [a stamp of the London Underground].

Poster, London Museum of Practical Geology, 1921, printed 1922
offset lithograph on paper, lined.
Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
1963-39-19

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

Photograph of buildings made out of transparent blocks of glass or plastic with stock figures printed all over them. Text in top right reads "wall st" in white.

Poster, Wall Street, 1968
photo-offset lithograph on uncoated standard paper and varnished .
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2009-20-45

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

Fragment of printed dress silk with an abstracted design of skyscrapers with diagonal shafts of light playing off the facades. In black and white, with reversals of positive and negative space.

Textile, Americana Print: Manhattan, 1925
silk.
Gift of Marian Hague.
1937-1-4

This object was made by Stehli Silk Corporation.
This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Length of printed cotton with an Art Deco-inspired cityscape of overlapping skyscrapers in shades of blue and white.

Textile, Big City, 1960s
cotton.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
2007-5-2

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

Poster shows upper section in black and lower section in white. In the white section, the word “Save” is shown partially / “Our / City”. In the black section, in white, words are situated at a 90-degree angle, that from a distance, looks like a cityscape with skyscrapers. This reads: DESIGNING / NEW / YORK: / PARADIGM / AND PARADOX. / A COLLOQUIUM / TO / EXPLORE / THE / REVITALIZATION / OF / NEW / YORK / THROUGH / DESIGN. OCTOBER 3, / 1991. Lower left in magenta ink, a column of text describing the event.

Poster, Save Our City, 1991
screenprint on white paper.
Gift of Michael Bierut.
1996-86-5

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
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Futuristic rendering of dark, monumental complex of high-rise structures on a plinth-like base. The central building extends vertically and is cut off by edge of sheet. Flanking the central structure, two symmetrical towers whose sloping sides end in steep and sharp points. Tall and narrow vertical buttresses along the facades repeat the upward thrust of the structures. Another skyscraper building is seen in the left distance. Rays of light emanating from the right distance and backlighting left side of the building complex emphasize the visual drama.

Drawing, Study for Maximum Mass Permitted by the 1916 New York Zoning Law,...
black crayon, stumped; brush and black ink over photostat, varnish on....
Gift of Mrs. Hugh Ferriss.
1969-137-2

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

Souvenir handkerchief issued on the occasion of the 1939 World's Fair in New York. In the center medallion is a view of the Trylon and Perisphere; in two corners are aerial views of the Flushing Meadows site; and in the two alternate corners "New York World's Fair 1939" with the fair flag featuring the Trylon and Persphere. Printed in orange, green and brown on a yellow ground.

Handkerchief (USA), 1939
silk.
Gift of Anonymous Donor.
1939-18-1

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