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1979

  • Work on this object began.

1993

  • We acquired this object.

2018

2024

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Poster, Urban Open Spaces

This is a Poster. It was published by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. It is dated 1979 and we acquired it in 1993. Its medium is screenprint on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Unknown donor: found in Collection. It is credited Gift of Unknown Donor.

Its dimensions are

121.5 × 45.5 cm (47 13/16 × 17 15/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Imprinted in white at upper center: Urban/Open/Spaces/Open Spaces: Temporary and Accidental/The Mount Sinai Medical Center/Fifth Avenue at 100th Street/Streets/Street Graphics and Street Furniture/Cooper-Hewitt Museum/2 East 91st Street/Playgrounds/Asphalt Green/90th Street/at the East River; at center left: Made Landscapes/The Parks Department's/Arsenal Gallery/830 Fifth Avenue/at 64th Street; at center right: Open Spaces/In New Towns/Good Shepherd Plaza,/Roosevelt Island; at lower center right: Plazas/McGraw-Hill Plaza/49th Street and Avenue of the Americas; at lower right: Conceptual Open Spaces/Henry Street Settlement/466 Grand Street; at lower left: Pedestrian Malls/Chase Manhattan Plaza; at lower center: Parks In the City/Federal Hall/26 Wall Street/Urban Waterfronts:/Special Urban Spaces/South Street Seaport Museum.

Cite this object as

Poster, Urban Open Spaces; Published by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (United States); USA; screenprint on paper; 121.5 × 45.5 cm (47 13/16 × 17 15/16 in.); Gift of Unknown Donor; 1993-15-4

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