Design for a Radio
Object Details
- Office of
- Henry Dreyfuss Associates
- Client
- Radio Corporation of America, American, founded 1919
- Description
- Horizontal rectangle. On blue-gray ground, design for a brown angled rectangular radio viewed obliquely from front. Large round dial at centers with numbers from 55 to 160 curving across, a brown knob at the dial's center. Two notched wheels at lower left and lower right of radio for controlling tuning and volume. A speckled white and brown pattern on the front, solid brown color at the radio's sides.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund
- 1946
- Accession Number
- 2017-1-3
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- appliances & tools
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Brush and gouache on illustration board
- Dimensions
- H x W: 35.6 × 50.2 cm (14 in. × 19 3/4 in.)
- H x W (Mat): 43.8 × 58.4 cm (17 1/4 in. × 23 in.)
- Mat: 55.9 × 71.1 cm (22 × 28 in.)
- made in
- 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_2017-1-3
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4bb3b925a-a6bd-42fb-bd83-c8bb9a3a9643
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