Object Details
- Designer
- J. Floyd Yewell, American, 1885–1963
- Architect
- Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, New York, New York, 1929–1979
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Depiction of a tall, rectangular skyscraper that appears to be an office building. The building is located at 500 Fifth Avenue at the corner of 5th Avenue and 42nd Street in Manhattan, and was designed by the architectural firm Shreve, Lamb & Harmon. The architecture is characterized by a setback or ziggurat style, becoming narrower as it reaches the sky. Other buildings appear to the left, in the background, and in the right foreground. The darkness of the foreground contrasts with the lighter space in the rest of the picture. The New York Public Library, identified by the two lion sculptures out front and its classical architecture, is shown in the left foreground facing 5th Avenue. Trees, small figures, cars, and a bus appear on the street level in front of the building.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Edith H. Yewell
- after 1931
- Accession Number
- 1984-76-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Type
- Medium
- Lithograph on cream paper
- Dimensions
- 101.6 × 64.1 cm (40 × 25 1/4 in.)
- made in
- New York, NY, USA
- place depicted
- New York, NY, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1984-76-1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4e54d5668-fddb-49af-ab6a-656e94239df1
