Reds

Anonymous Designer
Shopping Bag from Macy's, New York
ca. 1980
offset-print on paper bag
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Freddy Wittop
Stage Costume for Carol Channing in Hello Dolly
1994
sequined silk satin
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Peter Fischli and David Weiss
Untitled
1997-98
inkjet print
Guggenheim Museum, New York

George Hendrik Breitner
Girl in Red Kimono
ca. 1893
oil on canvas
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Ilya Bolotowsky
Tondo - Variation in Red
1978
acrylic on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Anonymous British Designer
Pulsing Stripes
1968
screenprinted wallpaper sample
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Marcus Geeraerts the Younger
Portrait of a Lady in Red
1620
oil on panel
Tate Britain

Anonymous Designer
James McNeill Whistler
1940
engraved postage stamp
National Postal Museum, Washington DC

Shawn Kuruneru
Red Blue I
2020
acrylic on canvas
Portland Museum of Art, Maine

Popel Coumou
Untitled
2019
pigment print
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Tomoko Miho
65 Bridges of New York
1968
screenprint (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Toshiko Hishida
Chanson
2003
screenprint
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Donald Sultan
Four Reds
2002
screenprint with flocking
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Milton Glaser
Yellow Pages (New York Telephone)
1970
offset-lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Rosemary Newson for Arthur Sanderson & Sons
Compendium
1968
screenprinted wallpaper sample
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Esta Nesbitt
Direct Toner Drawing
1971
photocopy
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Jan Lenica
Alban Berg - Wozzeck
1964
offset-lithograph
(poster for Warsaw production)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

from To the Name above Every Name: A Hymn.

Goe, Soul, out of thy Self, & seek for More.
            Goe & request
Great Nature for the Key of her huge Chest
Of Heavns, the self involving Sett of Sphears
(Which dull mortality more Feeles than heares),
            Then rouse the nest
Of nimble Art, & traverse round
The Aiery Shop of soul-appeasing Sound:
And beat a summons in the Same
            All-soveraign Name
To warn each severall kind
And shape of sweetnes, be they such
            As sigh with supple wind
            Or answer Artfull Touch,
That they convene & come away
To wait at the love-crowned Doores of
            This Illustrious Day. 
Shall we dare This, my Soul?  We'l doe't and bring
No other Note for't, but the Name we sing.
            Wake Lute & Harp
            And every sweet-lipp't Thing
            That talkes with tunefull string;
Start into life, and leap with me
Into a hasty Fitt-tun'd Harmony.          

– Richard Crashaw, Sacred Poems (1652)