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Drawing, Design for Roof Garden, Hotel Gibson, Cincinnati, OH
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Joseph Urban. It is dated 1928 and we acquired it in 1990. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, white gouache, gold paint, graphite on yellowish paper, laid down on tissue paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Austrian emigrant Joseph Urban left his mark as an architect, decorator, stage designer, and illustrator. In this jewel-like rendering of his design for the since-demolished Hotel Gibson, Urban’s concurrent emphasis on both individual details and holistic design, no doubt a reflection of his varied professional work, is evident in spades. Notable as well is Urban’s inclusion of numerous figures, suggesting an emphasis on the room’s function as a space for entertainment and social interaction and underlining the human component of decoration.
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Dining Under the Stars.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Carola Walton in memory of her mother Dorothy S. Teegan.
- Side Chair (USA)
- painted wood.
- Gift of Dorothy S. Teegen and Carola Teegen Walton in memory of Otto J. Teegen.
- 1985-13-1
- Textile (Austria)
- linen.
- Gift of Edward J. Wormley.
- 1963-36-1
- Drawing, Elevations of Mike Lyman's Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA
- brush and gouache on illustration board.
- 1988-90-1
Our curators have highlighted 6 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Drawing, Study for a Proposed Mural for the Ballroom of the Hotel Pierre, New...
- brush and watercolor, graphite on paperboard.
- Gift of Mrs. Griffith Baily Coale.
- 1962-135-20
- Drawing, Sketch, restaurant A, for Uris Hotel
- black and white crayon, graphite on off-white tracing paper.
- Gift of Henry Dreyfuss.
- 1972-88-416
- Photograph, Persian Room, Plaza Hotel, New York, NY
- gelatin silver print on paper.
- Gift of Carola and Guy Walton.
- 1992-73-2
Its dimensions are
H x W: 22 × 32 cm (8 11/16 × 12 5/8 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite, along lower margin: HOTEL GIBSON CINCINATI [sic] OHIO ROOF GARDEN JOS URBAN 1928
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for Roof Garden, Hotel Gibson, Cincinnati, OH; Designed by Joseph Urban (American, 1872–1933); Austria; pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, white gouache, gold paint, graphite on yellowish paper, laid down on tissue paper; H x W: 22 × 32 cm (8 11/16 × 12 5/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Carola Walton in memory of her mother Dorothy S. Teegan; 1990-126-1
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.
