Tags | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

We have 18 objects tagged palm trees.

Clump of tropical plants with palm, ferns and large leaves. Design is a half drop.

Textile (France), 1920s
silk.
Gift of Mrs. Germaine Little.
1968-110-186

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

Panel of ivory silk satin embroidered with the left and right fronts of a gentleman's waistcoat, with stand collar, pocket welts, and button covers. The embroidery consists of an overall scattered floral with floral borders up the center front; on the pockets and at hem edge are scenes of monkeys drinking rum and playing musical instruments. In sixteen colors of floss silk.

Waistcoat, Uncut (France), 1780–95
silk.
Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma....
1962-54-31

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Very dark blue background with bands of dark brown and taupe at the top. On the left side, bands of geometric borders in light blue and a pink patterned house, sideways. In the lower left, two interlocking hearts machine embroidered in red. In the lower right, a large yellow palm tree, and a light blue patterned R. In the upper right corner, three snowflakes in off-white.

Blanket, Sampler Blanket #1, 2004
wool, polyester.
Museum purchase through Exhibition Funds.
2005-33-1

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

Block printed cotton with exotic plants including an aloe and a diminutive palm tree with a butterfly, in bright colors on a white background.

Textile, Fleurs Tropicales et Palmiers (Tropical Flowers and Palms), ca. 1787
cotton.
Gift of Josephine Howell.
1973-51-105

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

Designed in a bold woodcut technique. Tropical scenes showing a black female figure in a grass skirt, her arms balancing a keg placed on her head; a pipe-smoking sailor, hands on hips, standing next to a barrel, against a distant sailing ship. Both scenes surrounded by tropical foliage, coconut palm trees and water. Printed in ochre, sienna, black and white.

Sidewall, Le Marin [The Sailor], 1925–30
block-printed on paper.
Gift of Frankl Galleries.
1930-11-1-e

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

Balustrades, awnings, palm trees and black birds, printed in bright multicolor on black ground.

Sidewall, Cote d'Azur, 1992
rotary screen-printed on paper.
Gift of Imperial Wallcoverings, Inc..
1997-16-2

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

Small nests of coastal buildings splashed with yellow behind tall palm trees, tops washed in brown. Blue drawing on gray board.

Sidewall, Riviera Palms, 1951
screen-printed on paper.
Gift of Mildred C. McNutt.
1965-14-7

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

Complete width. Vertical rectangle with design in Anglo-Japanesque-style, of roses and other plants, vases and strapwork. Printed in greens, olives and greenish-brown on a metallic copper ground with ribbed texture imitating moire.

Sidewall (possibly England), 1880–1890
block printed on ribbed paper.
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
1931-45-120

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

Scene of domes, minarettes, palms, three robed figures and a camel, bathed in light of sunset, within vertically rectangular panel within which a brown and metallic gold frame outlines the scene enclosed in an oval. Frame includes title: "Le Soir". This is one medallion from the set of "Les quatres heures du jour".

Decorative Panel, Le Soir [The Evening], ca. 1855
block-printed paper.
Gift of Mrs. Germaine Little.
1968-113-4

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

Length of printed linen with a densely arranged design of a hunter in 18th century attire with his dog; a cityscape is in the far distance and the figures are framed by trees. A spotted deer is hidden in the foliage.

Textile, La Chasse, 1913
linen.
Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund.
1934-14-2

This object was made by Bianchini-Férier, Inc..
This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Legth of printed cotton with an irregular grid of Polynesian motifs including a tree house and a group of thatched-roof huts; palm trees; seashells, turtles, fish, birds and lizards; an archer; three men in a canoe; a man carrying bunches of fruit; masks; and a variety of patterns similar to those used on tapa (beaten bark cloth), in shades of brown, light blue, pink and yellow on an off-white ground.

Textile, Pagan Magic, 1952
cotton.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Funds.
1995-48-2

This object was made by Riverdale Drapery Fabrics.
This object is part of the Textiles collection.

A palampore or tent hanging with a center field and border. The field is dominated by a tall, straight, slender palm (possibly date?) rising from a mound, with a full crown of feathery foliage and fruit clusters. From lower on the trunk spring, at one side, a small palm head, bending gracefully, and from the other side a down-curving branch of blossoms. From the mound grows a slender flowering vine, which divides and winds upward, forming a frame for the tree's head.
Small flowering trees grow from either corner of the mound; to the left of the palm is a short rugged tree, bamboo shoots grow close to the trunk of the palm, and to the right stands a handsome peacock. The trunk of the palm is marked with an eliptical pattern, and its roots are exposed.
The border, 15 inches wide, is a repeating pattern of short trees, and in each corner, a small bamboo tree. The rows of little trees grow from a curving ground line, suggesting mounds.
In two reds, blue, green, red-violet, yellow (now much faded) and red-brown outlines on an off-white ground, without seam. Lined with cotton.

Palampore (India), mid–late 18th century
cotton.
Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund.
1952-118-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Horizontal rectangle: Isolated and a group of trees and plants, across the top row; three palms with facade and steeple of a church, at center; and a tree and plant at a slope, at bottom.

Drawing, Sketches from the Rio Magdalene, Columbia: Botanical Studies and a...
graphite on gray paper.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-95

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

Brisé fan of black lacquered wood with gilt decoration. On the obverse, an island with houses and a pagoda. On the reverse, islands with houses and a small bridge.

Brisé Fan (Japan), mid- 19th century
lacquered and gilded wood sticks.
Gift of Georgina and Louisa L. Schuyler.
1916-29-112

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Sides and top both covered with paper showing landscape with river, mansion, bridge and palm trees. A sidewheeler is shown in the water directly in front of the building. Blue field, with red, green and white.

Bandbox, Walking Beam Sidewheeler, ca. 1840
block printed paper on pasteboard support.
Gift of Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson.
1913-45-8-a,b

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

General aerial view of Pershing Square with green trees and foliage in middleground; in background, a group of highrise buildings in brown; lowrise buildings at center and left.

Drawing, Proposal for Pershing Square, Los Angeles, 1986
pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, watercolor on thick white wove paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Lucy Work Hewitt.
1993-115-1

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

Two views: upper center, aerial view showing performance area, grid, and trees on periphery; lower center, cafe showing tables under canopy, trees beyond see related Pershing Square drawings: 1993-115-1/3; 1993-115-5/6.

Drawing, Proposal for Pershing Square, Los Angeles: Performance Area and...
pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Lucy Work Hewitt.
1993-115-4

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

Wide central and two narrow lateral panels are flanked by pilaster strips. Each of these and the two halfs of the dado show alternative suggestions for the decoration. The panels show representations of Europeans in stylised Chinese landscapes. At left a party is shown in the open; at center a reception is shown; at right a group of hunters. Rinceaux ornament decorates the ceiling cove.

Drawing, Design for Chinoiserie Wall Decoration, ca. 1720
pen and black ink; brush and rose, yellow and light blue watercolor, white....
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1911-28-213

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