Collections

• About the Collections
• Drawings, Prints, & Graphic Design
• Product Design & Decorative Arts
• Textiles
• Wallcoverings
• Library

Drawings, Prints, & Graphic Design

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum’s Drue Heinz Study Center for Drawings and Prints houses more than 160,000 works of art dating from the Renaissance to the present related to the history of European and American art and design. Among the world’s foremost repositories of European and American works on paper, the collection includes designs for architecture, decorative arts, gardens, interiors, ornament, jewelry, theater, textiles, graphic and industrial design, as well as the fine arts.

• a rare drawing by Michelangelo for a candelabrum
• 17th–19th-century Italian and French drawings and prints pertaining to ornament, decorative arts, and architecture
• architectural drawings by Hector Guimard, Hugh Ferris, and many others
• textile designs by the Wiener Werkstätte
• more than 400 kata-gami (stencil) patterns for textiles
• furniture designs by Frank Lloyd Wright
• industrial design drawings by Henry Dreyfuss, Donald Deskey, and more
• graphic design by Edward McKnight Kauffer, Paula Scher, and other contemporary designers
• an extensive collection of American 19th- and early 20th-century art including important drawings and prints by Frederic E. Church, Winslow Homer, Daniel Huntington, and Thomas Moran, housed in the Henry Luce Study Room for American Art