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Photograph, Baby Terrier Crate Opener, by Bridgeport Hardware Mfg. Corp., 69 cents
This is a Photograph. It was photographed by Walker Evans.
This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from The J. Paul Getty Museum as part of Tools: Extending Our Reach.
In the July 1955 issue of Fortune Magazine, the American photographer Walker Evans celebrated iconic hand tools in a photographic essay, "Beauties of the Common Tool." Referring to the hardware store as an "offbeat museum show," Evans praised the "undesigned" forms of classic tools and chided the "design-happy manufacturers" who dared to change the least detail. Tin snips, a bricklayer’s trowel, chain-nose pliers, and a crate opener were, in Evans’s eyes, standards of "elegance, candor, and purity." Ultimately, what Evans valued was the design, the construction that resulted from the maker’s understanding of function, efficiency of form, and material.
It is credited The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 84.XM.956.1060.
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- Drawing, Controller of the Universe
- colored pencil and pen on paper and tracing paper.
- Courtesy of the Artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, DO052.
- 1.2014.1
- Drawing, Controller of the Universe
- colored pencil and pen on paper and tracing paper.
- Courtesy of the Artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, DO053.
- 1.2014.2
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Its dimensions are
H x W: 25 × 20 cm (9 7/8 × 7 7/8 in.)
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Tools: Extending Our Reach.
