A greeting card illustrating a city street at night in winter with snow falling. The scene is seen as though from a high vantage point looking downwards and outwards to the top right. In the foreground we have an aerial perspective view of buildings with snow-covered roofs. Below this is the grey snow-covered street with two black streetlights casting a bright glow and groups of figures in black and blue uniforms shoveling snow onto the street edges and into sleighs and trailers pulled by horses, whilst a car winds its way down the center. On the sidewalks are rows of pedestrians carrying bue, purple and bright red umbrellas and to the left we see abstracted shop fronts glowing with the same blue, red and purple light and the dark sky aglow with light. On the left edge there is a vertical blue border with a column of white snowflakes inside.

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Object Timeline

1937	Work on this object began.
2016	We acquired this object. We photographed this object. We photographed this object. We photographed this object.
2024	You found it!

Greeting Card, Season's Greetings

This is a Greeting card. It was designed by Ilonka Karasz. It is dated 1937 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is lithograph on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This group of ephemera by Ilonka Karasz reflects the variety of her graphic production from the 1920s through the 1940s. It includes exhibition pamphlets announcing the presentation of her own work as both a fine artist and a designer, promotional graphics for events, and designs for a holiday card and a personal bookplate. Karasz was a sophisticated, prolific and mutable artist. Her graphic style evolved to suit the medium and the commission, but always retained the spirit of playfulness and a lyrical line, as evidenced in the diversity of these objects, which enhance Cooper Hewitt’s existing representation of Karasz as a graphic artist.

This object was donated by Marilyn Friedman. It is credited Gift of Marilyn Friedman.

Print, Cover Design for The New Yorker
zinc cut of a linoleum print, graphite on white paper.
1955-111-43

Its dimensions are

19.7 × 14.9 cm (7 3/4 × 5 7/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Printed in black, interior: Seasons Greetings and best wishes for a Happy New Year; verso, bottom: Designers and Illustrators No. x2510 I.K. 1937

Cite this object as

Greeting Card, Season's Greetings; Designed by Ilonka Karasz ((American, born Hungary, 1896–1981)); lithograph on paper; 19.7 × 14.9 cm (7 3/4 × 5 7/8 in.); Gift of Marilyn Friedman; 2016-49-6

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2FYCSi/
Accession Number 2016-49-6
Object ID 1108750405