Tags | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

We have 18 objects tagged color transitions.

Painting, Go Down Death, 1934

Painting, Go Down Death, 1934
oil on masonite.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund and Gift of Prof. and....
48.2016.19

Rectangular hanging with an ochre ground with a column of horizontal rectangles projecting from a center axis. Wide band of dark brown at the bottom, with two narrower brown stripes above. In ochre, brown, rust and off-white. Brown yarns are chenille; rust and off-white are boucle. Some use of gold metallic yarns.

Panel (USA), late 1930s–late 1950s
cotton, rayon? metal strip.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
1998-55-1

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

Kimono length split diagonally over its entire lenth between gray and black. The gray color is the result of crossing a white warp with a black weft; the black area is a black warp and black weft. The hand-spun silk has a more cotton-like feel than reeled silk. Original design dates from 1910.

Textile, Yuki Tsumugi, 1988
warp: hand-spun silk (tsumugi) wrapped with reeled silk; weft: hand-spun silk....
Gift of Jun Okuzawa, Representative of Yuki Tsumugi Producers Association.
1989-99-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 8 images of this object.

One strand of a narrow rope twist or cable molding border. Red flock overprinted in shades of orange and red on white ground.

H#323

Border (France), 1835–1900
block-printed and flocked on machine-made paper.
Gift of Josephine Howell.
1972-42-144-a,b

This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

A mixture of different type fonts arranged on a diagonal opposition with rectilinear text blocks. Printed in "split-fountain" which produces color transitions from red at top left, through orange, yellow to green, blue, lavender and violet at bottom right corner. The date is printed in black at top center.

Poster, Tanzstudio Wulff, 1931
letterpress on white wove paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
2004-1-1

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

Panel of industrially-produced felt dyed using a stitch resist technique. Felt is pleated, sewn together and dipped in a reactive textile dye. Felt filters the dye to create different shades and intensities of color.

Panel, Fluid Green, 1998
wool.
Museum purchase through gift of John Pierpont Morgan and Mrs. Hamilton Fish....
2008-17-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Brooch (England), 1909

Brooch (England), 1909
cut and entwined ribbon silver, with basse-taille enamel.
Gift of Judy Francis Zankel.
2013-55-5

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Poster depicts a spiral turning from fuzzy gray to clearer blue and then at the center bold black. Upper left: medical gases; Lower margin: GENERAL DYNAMICS; lower right margin: LIQUID CARBONIC.

Poster, Medical Gases, General Dynamics, 1960
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Arthur Cohen and Daryl Otte in memory of Bill Moggridge.
2013-42-6

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

Deep bowl of dark green and blue glass with slightly flared lip and low foot; five circular brown glass paste medallions applied around upper section of body.

Bowl (France), ca. 1910
glass.
Museum purchase through gift of Jacques Séligmann.
1969-22-1

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Figure of a crab on rock-like base, claws resting on shell which forms small disg. Mottled glaze, some crystalline glaze. Crab pink, shell cream-colored, base blues, greens, cream.

crab Figure, ca. 1904
glazed porcelain.
Gift of J. Lionberger Davis.
1968-1-4

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.

Panel of printed velvet with undulating ribbons of color appearing to hang from the top and terminate several inches above the bottom. In mixed shades of purple and brown on a white ground.

Textile, Rivers, ca. 1972
cotton.
Gift of Cindia Cameron.
2011-21-2

This object was made by Knoll Textiles.
This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Cushion of colored wools felted into a log form and then sliced, giving the effect of the rings of a tree. In shades of brown, purple, green and red, varying in composition from predominantly purple to predominantly red.

Cushion, The Slice, 2003
wool.
Gift of Lene Frantzen.
2009-23-1-a/j

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Straight beaker, rounded at bottom. On sides, tooled irregular nubs. Greenish-gold iridescence.

Beaker (USA), ca. 1910
blown favrile glass.
Gift of Mrs. Edward C. Moën.
1962-151-1

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

Opaque deep blue with marbleized swirls of green, light blue, amber, rose. Pear-shaped body; neck with convex curve below lip; low flat base.

Vase (USA), ca. 1920
mold-blown favrile glass.
Bequest of Joseph L. Morris.
1966-55-13

This object was made by Tiffany and Co..
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Opaque, predominantly green with yellow and blue, marbleized. Low angled broad shoulder, convex bulge below mouth.

Vase (USA), ca. 1900-03
mold-blown favrile glass.
Bequest of Joseph L. Morris.
1966-55-15

This object was made by Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Length of woven cotton with white and black undulating vertical lines. Gradual color transition from predominantly white at one end to predominantly black at the other.

Textile, Cloned Line, 1996
cotton.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Florence Matthews, Mrs. Edward Stern,....
1996-105-1

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

Of square section with canted corners, the mottled green-red glazed stoneware set on a gilt-bronze base, with gilt-bronze scrolling overlay rising to a mount at the lip wth hinged lid.

Inkwell (France), ca. 1890–1900
glazed stoneware, cast gilt bronze.
Gift of Harry C. Sigman.
2013-21-1

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

Tall vase with long neck. Rose colored bottom ascends to yellow glass at top. Possible chill crack in glass.

Vase (USA), ca. 1900
mold-blown favrile glass.
Bequest of Joseph L. Morris.
1966-55-33

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