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Envelope, Paul Frankl Galleries

This is a Envelope. It was designed by Ilonka Karasz and subject: Paul T. Frankl. It is dated ca. 1925 and we acquired it in 1992. Its medium is woodcut on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through bequest of Ida C. McNeil in memory of Lincoln C. McNeil and Catherine McNeil.

Analogue clock. Base is black, resembling a bracket facing upward, holding the rectangular shape of the clock's body. The sides and top are metal, as are the hands of the clock. The numbers are black and surrounded by a red border, whose shape resemebles grooves or gears of a watch. From the edges of the clock to the red border are shapes resembling triangles whose tips get cut off by the red circle. The shapes go around the red borer and alternate between grey and tan. Separating each of these shapes is a small, black rectangle placed along the adjacent edges of two shapes.

M-1, Type B2 Clock, ca. 1928
chromium-plated and enameled metal, molded bakelite, brushed-burnished silver.
Gift of George R. Kravis II.
2015-41-1

Black and tan desk with side table placed on top of it. Desk consists of two black legs with tan shelves coming off of them to the sides. The top of the desk has a narrow, tan drawer with two black knobs. The top of the desk also has tan shelving coming off both sides of it. On top of the desk is a side table, which also has black legs, with tan shelves coming out of the bottom and top of the legs. In between the desk and table is an orange blotter.

Object ID #907214281
desk and bookcase: mahogany, cedrela, zebrawood, yellow poplar, and pine with....
Lent by Yale University Art Gallery, Bequest of Clara Migeon Swayze, by....
65.2016.5a/c

Lithographic poster ad in landscape orientation for the Parisian gallery of ironsmith Edgar Brandt. At the top of the poster, three lines of black, all uppercase letters read “Galerie / Edgar Brandt / 27 Boulevard Malherbes Paris”. The name EDGAR BRANDT dominates the upper section and its letters are highlighted with bead-like motifs that recall a decorative element used in wrought iron designs. At the center of the poster, a square frame contains an opulent motif of decorative ironwork, with two curved leaves symmetrically supporting three fan-like stylized flowers resembling a papyrus motif, of which the central one is largest. This curvilinear wrought iron motif is balanced on either side by an alphabetical list of names of over 30 designers represented in the gallery that includes for instance Daum and Lalique. At the bottom of the poster, one last line of text reads “Art décoratif contemporain” (contemporary decorative arts). The text and image are superimposed over curving light brown stylized floral and leaf line drawings that fill out the background and recall decorative elements of metalwork designs. The poster text, illustration and background reflect elegance.

Poster, Galerie Edgar Brandt
lithograph on tan paper, lined with linen.
Museum purchase from Drawings and Prints Council Fund.
2004-8-1

Its dimensions are

24.2 x 21 cm (9 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.)

It is inscribed

Printed in black, bottom: FRANKL / GALLERIES /4 EAST 48th. ST. NEW YORK

Cite this object as

Envelope, Paul Frankl Galleries; Designed by Ilonka Karasz ((American, born Hungary, 1896–1981)); Subject: Paul T. Frankl (American, b. Austria, 1886–1958); USA; woodcut on paper; 24.2 x 21 cm (9 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.); Museum purchase through bequest of Ida C. McNeil in memory of Lincoln C. McNeil and Catherine McNeil; 1992-145-1

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2DwP4/
Accession Number 1992-145-1
Object ID 18639289