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Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Drue Heinz Study Center for Drawings and Prints, 2 East 91st St.
New York, NY
United States
phone: +1 (212) 849 84 04
fax: +1 (212) 849 84 01
Contact: Marilyn Symmes (Curator), Elaine E. Dee (Curator Emerita), Gail S. Davidson (Assistant Curator), Paul Warwick Thompson (Director)
Collections
Focus: international. Consists of: architectural drawings, both individual drawings and complete archives; documents/correspondence (as part of an archive); vintage photographs (but only as part of an archive); ephemera. Strengths: European drawings 18th-20th centuries (Giuseppe Barberi, Felice Giani, Hector Guimard, Le Corbusier, and others); American 20th century (Hugh Ferris, Ely Jacques Kahn, Whitney Warren, and others). Collection accessible by computer; through inventories. Reproductions of drawings cannot be made. Institution has a conservation laboratory.
Library Holdings
Holdings: rare books, 17th - 20th century, 4500 volumes; reference library, 45,000 volumes; trade catalogues; 150 periodical subscriptions.
Exhibitions
Institution organizes exhibitions. Periodic and displays of permanent exhibitions. Exhibitions travel.
Publications
Catalogues and other publications.