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1933

  • Work on this object began.

2017

2025

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Painting, View of the Chrysler Building

This is a Painting.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Museum of the City of New York as part of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

It is dated 1933. Its medium is oil on canvas.

The Chrysler Building appears as a beacon of light above humble buildings as a paean to the glories of the pre-Crash skyscraper.

It is credited Lent by Museum of the City of New York. Gift of Collection of Robert R. Preato, 1991, 91.76.18.

  • Vase
  • glazed earthenware.
  • Gift of George R. Kravis II.
  • 2015-41-5

Its dimensions are

H x W (framed): 106.7 × 69.2 cm (42 in. × 27 1/4 in.) H x W (unframed): 99.1 × 62.9 cm (39 in. × 24 3/4 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

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