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Browse digitized objects from all of our collections below. The items displayed here represent a fraction of holdings. Comprehensive collection guides to our Design Collections are accessible at the top of each collection’s main page. Only a small selection of SVA collections are currently available online. Please contact the Archives for more information.

Original Art depicts: Smashed and torn work glove with two red dots for eyes

Original Art depicts: John Lovell Arms receipt with collaged lips and cigarette and hair

Mrs. Lovell at the Window

Original Art depicts: Collaged face made from an envelope, stamps and torn paper.

Red Head with Orange Scarf

Original Art depicts: Sketch of man in bathing suit diving into a pool. The man has his arms already in the water and his legs have just lifted off from the pool edge.

Weekend Arts section ("Last Call for Summer") - diving man (sketch)

Original Art depicts: Pencil drawing of a boat floating on the water next to a bridge, the skyline of the city in the background

Dear Friends. ("The Heart Is Wherever You Are")

Original Art depicts: Hollywood Hills with an orange sky made out of textured collage material. The world "Hollywood" is cut out of the hills.

Catania. ("Hollywood")

Original Art depicts: Envelope addressed to Tony Palladion with hand-drawn stamps referring to Las Vegas and Rush labels

Centro Culturale R Livatino, Catania, Sicily. Exhibition promotion

Original Art depicts: Figure holding pencil, made of a black glove body and head made of brushes glued together, bristles as hair, with torn paper eyes, nose, and lips

Original Art depicts: Red ink drawing of muscly man grabbing horse by neck and mouth

Original Art depicts: collage made from letter sent from Czech Republic with colored shapes forming a vaguely 'D' shape, with the word "So" in red and orange letters above

Original Art depicts: Large green face of a man in the upper left corner in the background looking over a yellow brick fence at three front views of people. On the left a woman dressed in black looking to the left with her hands out, in the middle a woman dressed in red tied to a green chair looking right, and a man on the right with one hand on his chest and one up in the air and eyes closed facing right.

Theater spot review: Urinetown (original art)

Original Art depicts: Face made of giant red letter 'L', small targets as eyes, and lips made from photographs of rock formations

Original Art depicts: An illustration in the upper left corner of a young Frank Rich in a green suit is seated at a table in a restaurant reading a Variety newspaper with a waiter standing next to him. The rest of the image three sketches of young Frank Rich.

Frank Rich article on growing up with the theater - Frank Rich as a boy (sketch)

Original Art depicts: A man in handcuffs points at the ground in the woods with several FBI agents around him, one holding a shovel, and one holding a dog on a leash that is looking towards the spot the man pointed. There is a police car in the right corner of the illustration.

Hadden Clark original art

Original Art depicts: Two collaged cardboard envelopes arranged to suggest a face

Original Art depicts: Front full bodied view of a man in a vest and slacks with his fists at his sides and an angry expression on his face. To the left in the foreground there is a bust three-quarters views of a young man with blonde hair looking to the right.

Theater spot review: Death of a Salesman (original art)

Original Art depicts: Collaged face made of torn envelope with stamps and label, wearing a cut paper crown.

Original Art depicts: Worm's eye view of a shirtless Steve Austin with his arms above his head and in blue jeans. The illustration has bright colors and is slightly abstract.

Stone Cold Steve Austin (original art)

Original Art depicts: Illustration of a front view of a man on his knees staring at the palms of his hands. Behind him from left to right there is the front view of a woman with her hands over her chest in an orange dress, the head and neck of a woman looking right, and a front view of a man looking left, with a green circular ceiling decoration above them.

Theater spot review: King David (original art)

Original Art depicts: Pastel illustration of five different feet walking up a set of stairs

Climbing (publication unknown)

Original Art, Posters depicts: sketch of black silhouetted figure with a bowler hat with the word "Hat" placed within the hat. Handwritten notes are in a column on the left.

School of Visual Arts. Art is Whatever sketch #4

Original Art depicts: An illustration of four women in each corner of the image dressed in black with white hoods sit at desks labeled "CHICKEN." In the center is a man framed by a magnifying glass, with his mouth open and dressed in yellow holding chickens and holding out a piece of paper with a dollar sign on it.

Electonic currency article by James Gleick ("Dead as a Dollar") - spot drawing of man in magnifying glass buying chickens (original art)

Original Art depicts: Man colored yellow sitting on his heels with his hands in his lap looking up at a bird with the face of a woman colored green in the bottom right of the image looking back at him. There is a woman colored red standing in the background between the two with her fists at her sides.

Theater spot review: Indiscretions (original art)

Posters, Original Art, Posters depicts: Painting of four brown cigars, lining the image is the word "Cigar" made out of matches, once on each side

Unknown. "Cigar" original study and reproduction of final poster

Original Art, Posters depicts: Large 3-D number one and two zeros rolling through a road in the Italian countryside.

Italian Touring Club 100th Anniversary sketch #2 (brown)

Original Art depicts: Four front views of people in a blank room. The left to right, there is a man standing holding a glass in a brown suit, next is a man sitting in a purple suit holding a drink, next is a man in a blue suit standing straight, next is a man in a tan suit looking to the left. There is a table with a lamp and a bottle on it in between the first two men.

Theater spot review: No Man's Land (original art)

Original Art depicts: Cartoon illustration of nude people in a sort of train sitting on each others knees

Portfolio of Miscellaneous Print Projects 2. TSCHER US Patent Pending (from Humor in Photography, published by Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI))

Original Art depicts: red face made of envelope with gray torn paper resembling cigarette smoke

Original Art depicts: Black ink drawing of the Queensborough Bridge drawn from partially underneath the bridge, a smokestack sits to the right of it.

Queensborough Bridge

Original Art depicts: Colored pencil drawing of gigantic sharpened pencils sticking out of the grass with a cloud and the sun in the distance

Original Art depicts: collages face made of mailing envelopes, postmarks and torn film

Theater spot review: Hypatia (original art)

Original Art depicts: Illustration of a side view of two women. The woman on the left is standing, and dressed in green business attire, with the woman on the right sitting, in a yellow bathrobe and a white towel on her head.

Theater spot review: Grace and Glorie

Original Art depicts: Contour drawing of a three-quarters view of a supermarket cashier scanning various grocery items. She has medium length hair and hoop earrings and the only thing that is colored in the drawing is her vest, which is a dull green.

New York Times Op-Ed. Supermarket cashier original art

Original Art depicts: The letters CUBE printed in a square.

"Cube" photostat

Original Art depicts: screenprint of an envelope collaged to look like a smoking face