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Drawing, Design for Sideboard, Milgrim Gallery

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Donald Deskey and from the office of Donald Deskey and made for (as the client) Milgrim Gallery. It is dated ca. 1935 and we acquired it in 1988. Its medium is graphite on tracing paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Donald Deskey. It is credited Gift of Donald Deskey.

Its dimensions are

34 × 37.4 cm (13 3/8 × 14 3/4 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamp in black ink, lower right: DONALD DESKEY / 630 FIFTH AVENUE / NEW YORK CITY; later stamp in black ink, upper right: DONALD DESKEY / ASSOCIATES

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, lower left: CABINET IN ASH BURL AND WHITE HOLLY; in graphite, lower right: MILGRIM GAL.; in graphite, lower right: 8431 [circled]; in graphite, lower right: SCALE 1"=1'–0"; in graphite: dimensions

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for Sideboard, Milgrim Gallery; Designed by Donald Deskey (American, 1894–1989); Client: Milgrim Gallery; graphite on tracing paper; 34 × 37.4 cm (13 3/8 × 14 3/4 in.); Gift of Donald Deskey; 1988-101-1954

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