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Design for a Radio

Cooper Hewitt

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    Object Details

    Office of

    Henry Dreyfuss Associates

    Client

    Radio Corporation of America, American, founded 1919

    Description

    Horizontal rectangle. On blue-gray ground, design for a brown angled rectangular radio viewed obliquely from front. Large round dial at centers with numbers from 55 to 160 curving across, a brown knob at the dial's center. Two notched wheels at lower left and lower right of radio for controlling tuning and volume. A speckled white and brown pattern on the front, solid brown color at the radio's sides.

    Credit Line

    Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund

    Date

    1946

    Accession Number

    2017-1-3

    Restrictions & Rights

    Usage conditions apply

    Type

    appliances & tools

    Object Name

    Drawing

    Type

    Drawing

    Medium

    Brush and gouache on illustration board

    Dimensions

    H x W: 35.6 × 50.2 cm (14 in. × 19 3/4 in.)
    H x W (Mat): 43.8 × 58.4 cm (17 1/4 in. × 23 in.)
    Mat: 55.9 × 71.1 cm (22 × 28 in.)

    made in

    New York, NY, USA

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    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
    Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department

    Data Source

    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

    Metadata Usage

    Not determined

    Link to Original Record

    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4bb3b925a-a6bd-42fb-bd83-c8bb9a3a9643

    Record ID

    chndm_2017-1-3

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