Object Details
Designer
Richard Arbib, American, 1917–1995
Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
A depiction of a portable television set in lower half of sheet on blue-gray ground. Television has upright rectangular shape with a with white metal or plastic body with blue base, feet, and top. Two large conically shaped gold dials, one above the other on narrow upper right side. A pop-up screen, encased in blue metal or plastic, shows woman's face. Screen is surmounted by a streamlined handle from which projects a chrome antenae with three cross bars of graduated length from top to bottom. Light reflects off the antenae on the vertical stem and on the lowest of the three cross bars producing white star-like highlights.
Credit Line
Museum purchase through the gift of Mrs. Edward C. Post
Date
1947
Accession Number
1992-183-7
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
industrial design
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing
Medium
Brush and watercolor, gouache, collage on blue-gray wove paper
Dimensions
50.3 x 32.2 cm (19 13/16 x 12 11/16 in. )
made in
USA
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Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_1992-183-7