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Design for a silver teapot, 1911 Nov. 4.

Cream and sugar set, 1911.

Notes on color from a lecture by Rudolph Schaeffer, 1926 Sept. 9.

Study for: Geraniums, ca. 1966.

Design for an urn, 1967.

jewelry order for the necklace Himalaya Range, 1979 July 27.

George Nakashima trademark, ca. 1965.

Carlos Almaraz, 1976.

Rockwell Kent, costume design for the Sadler Wells Ballet’s production of Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes, 1945.

Sketchbook, felt tip pen on paper, ca. 1966.

Satirical sketch for an artist strike, 1961.

Jasper Francis Cropsey, Study, Cave at Sorrento, Bay of Naples. Pencil and brown wash with touches of white on blue paper, 1848 June.

Stanton Macdonald-Wright, color wheel, 196-?.

Oscar Bluemner, Study, 'The Dance of Factory Life, etc., etc.' Watercolor, gouache, and casein on paper, ca. 1930.

Sketch of Hans Knoll's office, 1950.

Cartoon of President Theodore Roosevelt, 1908 Feb..

McKee Barclay of the Baltimore Sun, 1904.

E.R. Johnson of the Philadelphia Press. Theodore Roosevelt with Benjamin 'Pitchfork Ben' Tillman (1847-1918), Senator from South Carolina, 1909 Jan. 11.

Rollin Kirby, cartoonist of the New York Post, sketched Theodore Roosevelt as an angel at the Republican Convention in Chicago., 1912.

Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks viewed from the press stand by I. Go[?], cartoonist for the New York American, 1908 June 14.

Nelson Harding depicting the division of the Republican party during the Convention of 1912, 1912.

Samuel J. Woolf of President Calvin Coolidge, 1923.

Original Cartoon by Fred Ellis showing President Harry S. Truman using the Truman Doctrine as fertilizer for cultivating weapons in Cold War Germany, while Congress sweats in the background, ca. 1948.

Café Flowers, Caged Condiments, Cupcakes Java and Sinkers and Other Food, ca. 1995.

Four San Francisco Street Scenes, ca. 1980.

Tule Fog and Haze, ca. 1995.

Hot Cakes, Banana Splits, Deer Heads, ca. 1990.

Tie Racks, Cosmetic Displays, Woman Playing Ball, ca. 1990.

Dancers, Woman in Bakery, Woman with Books, ca. 1985.

Reclining Nude, Woman Reading, San Francisco Streets, Hat Rack, Deli Counter, ca. 1988.

Figure Sketches (Including James Joyce), ca. 1990.

San Francisco Street Scene, Women's Shoes, Figure Studies, ca. 1990.

Four Flags, Farm Pool Series, Hats and Cakes, ca. 1995.

Richard Diebenkorn, between 1956 and 1959.

Elmer Bischoff Self Portrait, ca. 1958.

Sketch, possibly by Inez Nathaniel Walker, ca. 1980.

Inez Nathanial Walker, Pail Mail, ca. 1980.

Design for advertisement, n.d..

Sketch of the reconstruction of the tomb of Julius II found in his notebook for the Michelangelo seminar he took with Erwin Panofsky, 193-.

Sketch for Spanish mural, 1964.

Bird by Nathan Oliveira, 1974.

Red wrapped and twisted stick samples, 1983 Aug. 17.

Sketch for Hirise on graph paper, for the Whitney Exhibition, ca. 1983.

Natasha Kempers-Cullen, sketches for 'Seven of Spades', 1993.

Notes and reflections on making The Joker., Aug. 22, 1993.

Photocopy of Jim Acord and Susan Shie's sketchbook with notes on making the Joker, 1993 Aug. 22.

Sketchbook of Europe (no. 43), 1949.

'The Possessed”, 19--.

Sketchbook of Ramón Carulla 1980, 1980 Aug. 7.

Sketchbook of Ramón Carulla 1987-1988, 1987-1988.

England 1948, 1948.

Europe 1948, 1948.

Morroco 1972, 1972.

Puerto Rico 1963, 1963.

Palm Trees in Barbados, 1955.

Circo, between 1969 and 1971.

Circus, between 1969 and 1971.

Circus Performers, between 1969 and 1971.

Entrance to the Circus, between 1969 and 1971.

Trapeze Artists, between 1969 and 1971.

Circo in Lights, between 1969 and 1971.

Leon (Lion), between 1969 and 1971.

Building Sketch, 19--.

Un Santo (A Saint), 1950.

A King holding a Crown of Thorns, 1951.

Mythological creature (Black, Green, Red, Yellow), 1951.

Pottery Bowl, 1951.

Round Face and Arms of a Mythological creature (Front View), 1951.

Side View of a Mythological Creature, with a Head and Round Body, 1951.

Pottery with Handle, 1951.

Pottery Bowl with Bird Design, 1951.

Roof Top in New York, 1960?.

World Trade Center 1974, 1974.

Sketch inside the Schoolhouse, 1959.

Houses in San Juan, 1963.

Yellow Flowers, 1965.

Yellow Building in Charleston, 19--.

Texas City Horizon, 1967.

Blue Building on U.S. Virgin Islands, 19--.

Color sketch of magician with cigar, 19--.

Sketches of Pots, 1961?.

Installation sketch for the piece, between 1982 and 1986.

Kaneko Dangos, ca. 1996.

Sofa, ca. 1960.

Native American, 1910?.

Man in hat, ca. 1940.

Woman holding baby, ca. 1940.

Woman wearing head scarf, ca. 1940.

Man with horse , ca. 1940.

Leaning man in sombrero , ca. 1940.

Sketch of Shoji Hamada at a Hamada Workshop at the University of Southern California, Sept. 1963.

Sketch of Rockwell Kent farm, 1979.

Painting Diary, 12 June 1911-30 January 1912.

Sketchbook, 1870.

Palmer Hayden Sketchbook with Studies of Sailboats in France., ca. 1929.

Sketch of a beach scene, April 6, 1943.

Sketch of a seated girl, n.d..

Figure sketch, between 1930 and 1965.

Figure sketch, between 1930 and 1965.

Landscape sketch, 1937.

Preliminary sketches for the painting As I Opened Fire ., 1964.

Waves. Stock Card for jewelry order, May 15, 1981.

Ptolemaic Scarab. Stock Card for jewelry order, ca. 1980.

Sketch for the gates at Central Park Zoo, Dec. 1, 1982.

New Hampshire, 1935.

Travels in Europe, Aug. 29 - Sept. 27, 1891.

Egyptian landscape, 1903 Dec. 3.

Egypt, Athens, and Venice, Mar. - June, 1897.

Hermann Dudley Murphy scrapbook of travels through Venice, Italy, 1936-1937.

Hermann Dudley Murphy scrapbook of travels through Venice, Italy, 1892-1908.

Travel sketchbook from Paris, France, 1931.

Grace Albee sketchbook of travel in Germany and France, 1931.

Sketchbook No. 27, 14 July 1942-2 Nov 1947.

Egyptian landscape, 1903 Dec. 31.

Great Spruce Head Island, Maine, ca. 1970.

Sketchbook, ca. 1884.

Harrison Cady Sketchbook, ca. 1943.

Sketchbook, ca. 1950.

Sketchbook, ca. 1950.

Lena Gurr sketchbook No. 7, 1930.

Sketchbook, ca. 1960.

Sketchbook, ca. 1881.

Worthington Whittredge sketchbook of a trip down the Rhine River, 1849.

Sketchbook, 1986.

Sketchbook, ca. 1859.

Sketchbook, ca. 1950.

Sketchbook, 1932.

Sketchbook, n.d..

Sketchbook, between 1944 and 1996.

Painting Diary, 1916-1918.

Palmer Hayden sketchbook of New York and Paris, 1929.

Notes on painting from Oscar Bluemner's 'Theory Diary' 1919-1920, 1920 Jan. 12.

Figure with wind blowing scarf, ca. 1943.

Many figures in a group, notes above., ca. 1943.

Female Japanese portrait, ca. 1920.

Australian Miner, 1920.

Sketch of Piero della Francesca's Queen of Sheba, ca. 1920.

Sketch of Andrea di Bartolo's 'Crucifixion', ca. 1920.

Yeishe, ca. 1920.

Dorthea A. Dreier., ca. 1900.

Harrison Cady, ca. 1950.

two men with hats, 1937.

untitled, 1937.

man seated with head in hands, 1936.

Library, 1934-5.

man, recumbent, 1934-5.

Man reading, 1937.

Miner, 1937.

Lena Gurr., ca. 1940.

James Penney., 1973.

Oscar Bluemner., July 13, 1932. Copyright [1932], [The Modern Studio]. Use is to web version only.

Mollie Garfield Album, 1882-1883.

Dennis Burlingame posing for Charles Rosen, ca. 1943.

Play given for Amelia Earhart after her Atlantic solo flight, 'Brewster's Dark Pond', Ocean Born Mary House, Henniker, New Hampshire, 1932 May.

Play given for Amelia Earhart after her Atlantic solo flight, 'Brewster's Dark Pond', Ocean Born Mary House, Henniker, New Hampshire, 1932 May.

Play given for Amelia Earhart, 'Brewster's Dark Pond', 1932 May.

Play given for Amelia Earhart, 'Brewster's Dark Pond', 1932 May.

Morris Kantor in his studio on Cape Cod, a Wellfleet ice house made into a studio, 1938.

Morris Kantor with an easel, 1953.

Ray Strong painting the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, ca. 1925.

Scrapbook, ca. 1925.

Sketchbook, 188-.

Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt, ca. 1920.

Bad Portraits by a Great Painter, ca. 1890.

Commission for Seated Lincoln Statue, 1909 Sept. 19.

Sketchbook, 1913-1915.

Janet De Coux's studio, ca. 1940.

New York World's Fair Commission receipt for Court of Peace, 1939 Jun. 2.

Arthur Sinclair Covey painting mural for Kohler Company, 19--.

Susan Hale's cabinet diary, 1903.

Annie D Page sketchbook, 1868-1876.

Philip Hale's sketchbook, ca. 1877.

Mabel Alvarez, ca. 1940.

Mabel Alvarez, 1963.

Mabel Alverez, 1953.

Mabel Alvarez, 1961.

Frank Duveneck, in his studio, with Frank Dengler and H.F. Farny, ca. 1874.

Diez class in Munich, 1871.

Sketch of two women in high heels, 1942-1945.

Francis Davis Millet letter to Charles Francis Adams, Jr., [1907] Feb. 24.

Old Hayground Windmill. Watermill L.I. Now occupied as a studio of Miss Agnes Pelton, ca. 1921.

Agnes Pelton at work in her studio, ca. 1921.

Agnes Pelton standing outside her windmill studio, 1921.

Agnes Pelton in her studio, 191-?.

Allen Tupper True, 192-?.

Allen Tupper True to his mother, 1904 Sept. 5.

Andrew Dasburg and others in his studio, 1910.

Walter Gay letter to Matilda Gay, 1889 Mar. 1.

Carl Holty letter to Hilaire Hiler, 1941 Jan. 12.

Matunuck Summer School of Painting sketchbook, ca. 1899.

Ellen Day Hale sketchbook, 18--?.

Sketchbook: Sketches, notes made on hunger march to Washington, 1932.

Sketchbook: Sketches around Cambridge and Boston, 1936-1937.

Detail of: Washington March, 1933.

Lewis W. Rubenstein sketchbook of hunger walk to Washington, 1931.

Detail of Arturo Rodríguez's mural The Great Theater of the World, ca. 1987.

2 Fish and a Dancing Girl, 1993.

Cecilia Beaux and her cousin May Whitlock, 1888.

Abstract shapes, between 1929 and 1986.

Chickens, between 1929 and 1986.

Marc siting in a chair, between 1929 and 1986.

Study for: Man Drawing, 1893.

Sketchbook, begun November 3, 1880, 188-.

John D. Graham, 1939.

John D. Graham, ca. 1945.

Mr. Weaver's, 1898.

Violets in a yellow mug, 1902.

A Most Happy Birthday to Mamma, 1904.

Page from the 1919 National Academy of Design's annual exhibition catalogue, March 22 - April 27, 1919.

Page from the 1919 National Academy of Design's annual exhibition catalogue, March 22 - April 27, 1919.

Daniel Varney Thompson sketchbook of children at Tuileries Palace, France, 1923.

Stuyvesant Van Veen at work, ca. 1937.

The Arrival of the Athenian Tribute in Crete, ca. 1918.

Exhibition catalog of work by Violet Oakley & Edith Emerson, 1930 Jan.

Walt Kuhn's photograph album of famous paintings, 1913.

International Exhibition of Modern Art postcard, 1913.

Exhibition of Modern Art post card, 1913.

Vincent Van Gogh's Ball at Arles, 1913.