New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

3,296 works

Featured

Filters

Works per page

Color

Shape

Clear all

Pencil sketch of a bearded man seated by an open window beside a small table, with handwritten inscription below.

Billy Martin - Farewell Sketch at Quebec

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Pencil sketch of a cathedral interior with draped black fabric, an arched opening, and a circular medallion above.

Funeral of James Cardinal Gibbons at Roman Catholic Cathedral, Baltimore, MD

Griffith Baily Coale, 1920

Watercolor ornament designs showing two decorated Roman standards flanking a white scrolling foliage panel on a brown ground.

Ornament Design, Panel and Roman Standards

Michel Angelo Pergolesi, 1770

Study of a woman

William Stanley Haseltine, 1850

Charcoal and white chalk study of a woman with curly hair and closed eyes, head bowed, on gray-green paper.

Study for woman

Elihu Vedder, 1890

Pencil design drawing of a classical two-handled urn on a panelled pedestal with a small relief figure.

Design for an urn on a stand

John Nash, 1810

Red chalk drawing of a bound bearded saint tied to a tree while three men surround him.

Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew

Vespasiano Strada, 1590

Pencil study of a classical helmeted head of Athena, shaded on the right, with handwritten notes on the sheet.

Head of Athena (from a cast)

S. D. Pratt, 1900

Pencil design drawing of an arched gate with iron bars and two hounds shown in the upper arched panel.

Design for a Gate, Two Hounds

William Hunt Diederich, 1920

Red chalk drawing of three bishops in mitres and robes, standing close together, with loose hatched shading.

Three bishops

Jean-Robert Ango, 1770

Pencil study of an ornate Corinthian column capital with acanthus leaves above a fluted shaft and stepped base.

Study of a Capital and Base

Arnold William Brunner, 1870

Watercolor ornament design showing a classical female bust cameo in a blue circle, with a pink ribbon bow above.

Ornament Design with Female Portrait Cameo

Michel Angelo Pergolesi, 1770

Red chalk drawing of a standing draped female figure leaning on a tall upright form, with hatched background shading.

Allegory of justice with sword and scales

Jean-Robert Ango, 1770

Grey wash drawing of an elderly monk in a hooded robe seated on church steps beside a column, with a crowd behind him.

Old Monk

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Watercolor design with two Roman standards with medallions and an eagle, and a central carved patera dish with relief figures

Ornament Design, Paterae and Roman Standards

Michel Angelo Pergolesi, 1770

Red chalk drawing of a standing veiled woman holding a basket of fruit, with draped robes and hatched shading.

Standing figure with basket

Jean-Robert Ango, 1770

Pencil sketch of two scenes with sailboats on water, a rocky headland on the left and a treeline with houses on the shore.

Two Sketches of Sailboats Sailing

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Pen and ink drawing of two armored medieval warriors, one on horseback with a round shield and axe, one holding a spear.

"Armor of 800. Time of Charlemagne"

Edwin Howland Blashfield, 1880

Red chalk drawing of two standing figures in draped period costume, one wrapped in a cloak, on cream paper.

Standing figures in Renaissance dress

Jean-Robert Ango, 1770

Sketches at South Riverside Museum

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Pencil drawing of a woman in a white dress standing on a wooden staircase, hand on the banister, cloak over her arm.

As She Saw Marcia Her Face Lit Up

Elizabeth Shippen Green, 1910

Graphite study of a seated nude figure with winged helmet and rod, over a squared grid, on cream paper.

Nude Study for "The Active Life," Lunette in the Administration Building, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

Kenyon Cox, 1910

Watercolor of a rocky shoreline with trees on a bank and a small sailboat on calm water under a cloudy sky.

Landscape of Nantucket Island

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Grey wash drawing of a sculptor's studio with a plaster statue, small figurines on shelves, and several men at work.

A Sculptor's Studio

Thure de Thulstrup, 1890

Oil study of two tree trunks on a forest floor, one pale and lichen-spotted, with a hazy green hillside behind.

Tree Trunk, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil drawing of the Virgin seated with a halo, holding the standing infant Christ on her lap, with shaded drapery.

The Virgin with the Child

Fortunato Duranti, 1820

Pencil drawing of Notre Dame Cathedral's towers and flying buttresses beside a conical turret, with rooftops below.

Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris

Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, 1820

Pen and wash design drawing of an ornate cross with radiating rays on a decorated stand with a lion figure, 1810.

Design for a Cross with Alternative Suggestions

Pietro Belli, 1810

Brown ink and wash drawing of Christ and the Virgin above clouds and putti, with saints and a bishop gazing up below.

Christ and the Virgin with Patron Saints of Pistoia

Giacinto Gimignani, 1630

Brown ink drawing of Noah kneeling at an altar with a burning ram, smoke rising, and attendants beside an ornate vase.

Sacrifice of Noah

Pietro Novelli, 1590