Artworks

W. Eugene Smith

Gelatin silver print, from "Recording Artists" · 1945

Hendrik Van Keppel

Enameled steel tubing and cotton cording · 1939

Mary Reynolds

Full sienna, pink, and beige goatskin with cotton cord, grey-card onlays with trial stamps of a typographic plate made for Duchamp's Box in a Valise. Endpapers printed in pochoir with fern-leaf pattern and hand-drawn insects in black ink · 1939

Walter Von Nessen

Chrome-plated metal, Bakelite, acrylic, aluminum, electric heating element, and cloth-bound electrical cord · 1938

Andreas Feininger

Gelatin silver prints (accordion book) · 1937

Georges Rouault

Book with text and wood engravings on cream laid paper, sewn on five cords, in leather and cloth half binding, in slipcase; originally included 17 etchings, wood engravings, and a frontispiece, text pages, and cover; 150 pages including text; the etchings and frontispiece have been removed and matted individually; the text, wood engravings and volume cover are together · 1935

Eileen Gray

Cut and pasted printed papers, metallic paper, gelatin silver photograph and colored plastic sheet, elastic cord, gouache and pencil on board, plastic sheet, and metal staples · 1930

René Herbst

Nickel-plated steel tube and elastic rubber cord · 1928

Arthur Dove

Shingles, needlepoint, page from John Downame’s A Brief Concordance or Table to the Bible of the Last Translation, pressed flowers and ferns mounted on cloth-covered wood · 1925

Kurt Schwitters

Wood, metal, cord, cardboard, wool, wire, leather, and oil on canvas · 1919

Marcel Duchamp

12-inch vinyl record · 1913

Ida Ou Nadif

Wool and linen, plain weave; embroidered with wool, silk, cotton, and linen in chequered chain, double running, herringbone, threaded herringbone, pattern darning, satin, and stem stitches; silk-, cotton- and linen- wrapped cut tassels; top edge: linen and wool, weft twining; warp fringe wrapped with wool and embroidered with silk in compound cross stitches: lower edge: silk, centered weft twining; edged with cotton wrapped cord; silk and cotton wrapped cut tassels · 1900

Edvard Munch

Book of fourteen sheets of text on irregularly sized heavy cream wove paper, bound with a simple cord · 1895

House of Fabergé

gold, enamel, diamonds, silk cord · 1886

Ludwig Lobmeyr, Austrian

glasswares, decorative arts, cordial glass — mouth-blown crystal, hand-cut and polished · 1880

Ludwig Lobmeyr, Austrian

glasswares, decorative arts, cordial glass — mouth-blown crystal, hand-cut and polished · 1880

Mr.

Cotton plain weave, pieced; appliquéd with cotton, plain weaves; embroidered with cotton and wool wrapped cotton cords of oblique interlacing in running stitches; laid work and couching; edged with cotton, plain weave · 1877

Mrs. M. E. Mohortor

Cotton plain weave, pieced; appliquéd with cotton, plain weaves; embroidered with cotton and wool wrapped cotton cords of oblique interlacing in running stitches; laid work and couching; edged with cotton, plain weave · 1877

Mr.

Cotton plain weave, pieced; appliquéd with cotton, plain weaves; embroidered with cotton and wool wrapped cotton cords of oblique interlacing in running stitches; laid work and couching; edged with cotton, plain weave · 1877

Quechua

Wool, slit tapestry weave; plaited cords; tassels · 1875

Kuba

Raffia, plain weave; embroidered with raffia in buttonhole, pearl, and stem stitches, and running stitches cut to form pile; edged with raffia and hemp, plain weave, 2:2 oblique interlacing, and raffia-wrapped-raffia cord · 1875

Ludwig Lobmeyr, Austrian

glasswares, decorative arts, cordial glass — mouth-blown crystal, facet-cut and polished · 1871

Professor Josef Storck, Austria

glasswares, decorative arts, cordial glass — mouth-blown crystal, facet-cut and polished · 1870

George Jakob Hunzinger

furniture, decorative arts, chair — maple, cord, cloth-covered metal · 1869