Design for Signpost, Monkey
Object Details
- Date
- after 1934
- Designer
- William Hunt Diederich, American, b. Hungary, 1884–1953
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design for a signpost/weathervane depicting a coconut palm with climbing monkey facing left below arrow. The word "MONKEY" on arrow's tail feathers. Additional sign reads "BIRDS" on a placard halfway up the pole. Verso: sketches of flying birds; monkey sign variants; at left center: ARTHD and at lower left, sketch of a bracket.
- made in
- USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Credit Line
- Gift of Diana Diederich Blake
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Accession Number
- 1992-92-42
- Type
- metalwork
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright Notice
- © Diana Diederich Blake
- Medium
- Graphite, brush and black ink on tracing paper
- Dimensions
- 28 x 21.4 cm (11 x 8 7/16 in.)
- Metadata Usage
- Not determined
- Record ID
- chndm_1992-92-42
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