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Drawing, Elevation Perspective, Museum of American Folk Art, New York City
This is a Drawing. It was architect: Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associates and drafted by Tod Williams. It is dated October 1997 and we acquired it in 2001. Its medium is pen and black ink, graphite on tracing paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
The husband and wife team of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien ranks among the most successful American architectural firms working today. Over the course of their practice, this firm has produced renowned structures for numerous institutions and private clients. Their institutional projects include buildings for Princeton University, Clark University, University of Virginia, the Phoenix Art Museum, and the Cranbrook Educational Community. In addition, they design one or two residences per year, among the most well-known of which are the Speyer townhouse in Manhattan and the Rivkind house in East Hampton, New York, which was the recipient of an AIA award.
The Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associates project for the American Folk Art Museum in New York City was featured in the 2000 National Design Museum Triennial. Located on a slender plot on West 53rd Street, adjacent to property owned by MoMA, the eight-level building totals 30,000 square feet. The American Folk Art Museum site is excee
This object was
donated by
Tod Williams and Billie Tsien.
It is credited Gift of Tod Williams Billie Tsien.
- Digital Print, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (TAMA ), Tel Aviv, Israel, Lightfall I
- digitally enhanced fujiflex print, laminated and mounted on plexiglass.
- Museum purchase from Drawings and Prints Council Fund.
- 2005-4-1
Its dimensions are
(irregular): 43.2 x 33.7 cm (17 in. x 13 1/4 in.)
It is signed
Signed in pen and black ink, lower right: T.W. Oct ' 97
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and black ink, lower right: Museum of American Folk Art
Cite this object as
Drawing, Elevation Perspective, Museum of American Folk Art, New York City; Architect: Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associates; Drafted by Tod Williams (b. 1943); USA; pen and black ink, graphite on tracing paper; (irregular): 43.2 x 33.7 cm (17 in. x 13 1/4 in.); Gift of Tod Williams Billie Tsien; 2001-18-2
