Object Details
- Designer
- Richard Arbib, American, 1917–1995
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- A depiction of a portable television set in lower half of sheet on blue-gray ground. Television has upright rectangular shape with a with white metal or plastic body with blue base, feet, and top. Two large conically shaped gold dials, one above the other on narrow upper right side. A pop-up screen, encased in blue metal or plastic, shows woman's face. Screen is surmounted by a streamlined handle from which projects a chrome antenae with three cross bars of graduated length from top to bottom. Light reflects off the antenae on the vertical stem and on the lowest of the three cross bars producing white star-like highlights.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through the gift of Mrs. Edward C. Post
- 1947
- Accession Number
- 1992-183-7
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- industrial design
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Brush and watercolor, gouache, collage on blue-gray wove paper
- Dimensions
- 50.3 x 32.2 cm (19 13/16 x 12 11/16 in. )
- made in
- 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_1992-183-7
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq402949368-2165-4fec-9e49-01abff62adea
