Tags | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

We have 14 objects tagged watercolor.

Two-story building with pointed roof, balustrades, and greenery. The central part is projecting with a pair of stairs leading up to the main floor, where a loggia with gaines is shown. In brown ink, lower margin: Field View.; Scale, one inch = 10 ft [numbers below].

Drawing, Clubhouse and Golf Club, Newport, Rhode Island, ca. 1896
graphite, brush and watercolor on paper.
Gift of Mrs. William Greenough.
1941-49-4

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

The design of the building is proposed with ground floor not yet in final form.

Drawing, Hearst School for Girls: The Elevation of the Main Building, 1896 or...
graphite, brush and watercolor on cardboard.
Gift of Mrs. William Greenough.
1943-51-336

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

The swagged pelmet on a pole and tieback draperies in the rear of this library suggest the Regency period. The prints on the fireplace wall on the right show people in academic or clerical robes. Bookcases line the left wall, where a lower cabinet door is ajar. Nearby, a library ladder, desk and books piled on the floor reveal that this room is a working library, possibly belonging to an Oxford don.

Watercolor, Interior of a Library, 1830s–40s
brush and watercolor, graphite on paper.
Thaw Collection.
2007-27-28

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

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.

Blue, orange, and brown rectangles and squares; large in the middle and small at upper and lower edges.

Drawing, Design for Runner with Copper Sheet Inlay, 1950–76
brush and watercolor, graphite on white paper.
Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives.
1993-121-89

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

Horizontal rectangle. Two couples dance in the open to the music played by a man with a guitar and a woman with a tambourine. A woman with a baby is shown at right sitting in the middle distance at a slope. Mountainous country. Framing lines. Signature: "Gatta 1828."

Drawing, Water color; Tarantella dancers, 1828
pen and black ink and water colors on paper..
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
1931-73-5

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

Drawing, #23 Round mirror (unfinis

Drawing, #23 Round mirror (unfinis
watercolor, chalk.
Gift of Alfons Bach.
1993-108-372

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

A smoking baluster candelabra decorated with masks, swags and sphinxes. At right, strapwork with masks forms the right portion of an escutcheon.

Drawing, Design for Candelabrum Motif and Strapwork Escutcheon, ca. 1560
pen and brown ink, black chalk, brush and violet watercolor on off-white laid....
Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
1938-88-2923

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

This interior is dominated by royal blue walls, tasselled window treatment and heavily carved ceiling and wall panels. An orange carpet is decorated with Islamic motifs. A corner cabinet, a desk, miniature paintings and potted plants reflect an interior truly in the Victorian spirit.

Drawing, Alcove in the Salon of the Grand Duchess Anna of...
brush and watercolor, gouache, gold paint on white wove paper.
Thaw Collection.
2007-27-68

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

Printed textile design with hollyhocks in foreground, a "C"-shaped honeysuckle vine curving around the hollyhocks from lower right to upper left, and a meandering abstract design in monochrome in the background.

Drawing, Textile Design: Honeysuckle and Hollyhocks, 1897–98
brush and watercolor, graphite on cream wove paper.
Gift of Aimee B. Troyen.
2012-15-1

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

Textile design pattern with meandering, intertwined sprays of two-toned crimson anemones, pink apple blossoms, and yellow and crimson narcissi with an independent sinuous light-green generic vine in background.

Drawing, Textile Design: Anemones, Apple Blossoms, and Narcissi, 1897–98
brush and watercolor, graphite on cream wove paper.
Museum purchase from Drawings and Prints Council Fund.
1999-58-1

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

Piece of printed velvet with a young woman in medieval dress with flowing hair, holding a daisy and standing amidst a swirling profusion of branches and flowers, in shades of brown, rust, green and yellow on a pale pink ground.

Textile, Femme à Marguerite (Woman with Daisy), ca. 1898–1900
cotton.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
2004-6-2

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

Vertical sheet depicting a doorway with an iron gate framed by ashlar masonry with an open transom above filled with elaborately interlocking and scrolling ironwork. The ironwork of both the transom and the gate are magnified in detail in two sketches below.

Album Page, Ironwork, Door to City Hall, Basle (Basel), September 27,1887
brush and watercolor, graphite on cream paperboard tipped into binding with....
Gift of Mrs. William Greenough.
1943-51-137

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

Six studies of thistles blooming painted in violet and green watercolor

Drawing, Six Studies of Thistles, early 20th century
brush and watercolor on white paper.
Gift of Starling W. Childs and Ward Cheney.
1937-59-48

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