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Study for Maximum Mass Permitted by the 1916 New York Zoning Law, Stage 2
Hugh Ferriss, American
drawing — black crayon, stumped; brush and black ink over photostat, varnish on illustration board · 1922
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Study for Maximum Mass Permitted by the 1916 New York Zoning Law, Stage 1
Hugh Ferriss, American
drawing — black crayon, stumped; brush and black ink over photostat, varnish on illustration board · 1922
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Study for Maximum Mass Permitted by the 1916 New York Zoning Law, Stage 4
Hugh Ferriss, American
Black crayon, stumped, pen and black ink, brush and black wash, varnish on illustration board · 1922
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Proun 19D
El Lissitzky
Gesso, oil, varnish, crayon, colored papers, sandpaper, graph paper, cardboard, metallic paint, and metal foil on plywood · 1920
Museum of Modern Art

The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass)
Marcel Duchamp
Oil, lead, dust and varnish on glass · 1915
Tate

As She Saw Marcia Her Face Lit Up
Elizabeth Shippen Green, American
Charcoal, brush and grey oil paint on paper, varnished and mounted on illustration board · 1913
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

He Sat Still, Studying His Mother's Strong, Lined Face
Elizabeth Shippen Green, American
Charcoal, brush and grey oil paint on paper, varnished and mounted on illustration board · 1913
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Head of a Man (Tête d'homme)
Pablo Picasso
Oil, gouache, varnish, ink, gesso, charcoal, and pencil on paper · 1913
Museum of Modern Art

Sidewall
Janeway & Carpender, New Brunswick, New Jersey, est. ca. 1872
wallcoverings, sidewall — machine-printed and varnished paper · 1910
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

B.A. Cook & Co.
Cook & Co., B.A.
wallcoverings, sample book — machine-printed, varnished, oatmeal · 1910
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Reclining Female Nude
Emily Clayton Bishop
plaster/cast and varnished · 1910
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Seated Female Nude
Emily Clayton Bishop
plaster/cast and varnished · 1909
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Baby Joe
Emily Clayton Bishop
relief/plaster/cast and varnished · 1909
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Portrait of a Young Man
Joseph Stella
crayon, oil, and varnish on paper mounted on paperboard · 1909
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Woman Reading
Emily Clayton Bishop
plaster/cast and varnished · 1908
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Phaeton Pattern Frame
Theodore Roussel
Etching in black on ivory laid paper, joined and laid down onto wood frame, and varnished · 1907
Art Institute of Chicago

The Spectacles of Life
Jules Pascin
Watercolor and pen and black ink, with touches of graphite, varnished overall, on vellum, laid down on off-white wove paper · 1905
Art Institute of Chicago

Water Dam and Bridge
Gulbrand Sether
Watercolor and gouache, heightened with gum varnish, on ivory wove paper, tipped onto board · 1905
Art Institute of Chicago

The Rider
Paul Gauguin
gouache monotype touched with gum or varnish on laid paper · 1902
National Gallery of Art

Still-Life with a Green Flower Vase
Paul Becker
Oil on brown wood pulp board, varnished · 1900
Art Institute of Chicago

Sidewall
Janeway & Carpender, New Brunswick, New Jersey, est. ca. 1872
wallcoverings, sidewall — machine-printed paper, varnished · 1900
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Sidewall
Robert Graves Co., New York, New York
wallcoverings, sidewall — machine-printed paper, varnish · 1900
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Still-Life with a Green Flower Vase
Paula Modersohn-Becker
Oil on brown wood pulp board, varnished · 1900
Art Institute of Chicago

Room of the Sick Prince, from Love of Three Orange
Boris Israelevich Anisfeld
Watercolor and gouache, with brush and black ink, gold metallic paint, pen and black ink, and touches of graphite, selectively varnished, on off-white laid paper · 1899
Art Institute of Chicago