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Drawing, Design for Textile: "Party Ashtray"
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Donald Deskey and from the office of Donald Deskey and drafted by Donald Deskey. It is dated ca. 1936 and we acquired it in 1975. Its medium is white, blue, and red-orange pastel on black wove paper . It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Vivid diagonal lines of lit cigarettes contrast with curving blue plumes of smoke to create movement across the surface of this textile design. Textiles were important to Deskey’s interiors and provided him with more opportunities to use industrial materials in his modern designs. While his furniture incorporated new synthetic plastics and laminates, Deskey’s textile designs embraced synthetic fabrics such as Permatex and Rayon.
This object was
donated by
Donald Deskey.
It is credited Gift of Donald Deskey.
- Sidewall (possibly USA)
- machine-printed on paper.
- Gift of Charles Grimmer & Son.
- 1930-14-1-f
- Drawing, Design for Greeting Card, "Vanishing"
- brush and gray and black gouache, graphite on white wove paper .
- Gift of Donald Deskey.
- 1975-11-57
- Drawing, "Cocktail Hour," Textile Design
- brush and gouache on paper, lined.
- Gift of Donald Cameron.
- 1992-51-29
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- Cigarette Case
- platinum, sapphires, diamonds.
- Lent by Siegelson, New York.
- 61.2016.6
- Drawing, Design for Three-Piece Smoking Set in Silver and Mixed Media, 1950–70
- brush and green gouache and watercolor, graphite on paper board.
- Gift of Donald Cameron.
- 1998-19-75
- Pamphlet, Consolidated Cigar Corporation Annual Report, 1954, 1954
- offset lithograph on paper.
- Gift of James Howard Fraser.
- 2000-68-10
Its dimensions are
H x W: 16 × 13.1 cm (6 5/16 × 5 3/16 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in white pastel, verso: "Party Ashtray" / #69 / 88[cents] yd
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for Textile: "Party Ashtray"; Designed by Donald Deskey (American, 1894–1989); USA; white, blue, and red-orange pastel on black wove paper ; H x W: 16 × 13.1 cm (6 5/16 × 5 3/16 in.); Gift of Donald Deskey; 1975-11-20
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.