Covers

Childe Hassam
Cover of An Island Garden by Celia Thaxter
1894
printed book-cloth
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Kenyon Cox
Cover of Home Study Magazine
1898
lithograph
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Kenyon Cox
Cover of McClure's Magazine
1901
lithograph
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Abel Faivre
Cover of Le Rire Magazine
1913
lithograph
Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

Hugo Gellert
Cover of The Fraternal Outlook Magazine
1939
lithograph
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Designer
Cover of The Miracle of Rayon
1946
offset-lithograph
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Garrett Price
Cover Design for The New Yorker Magazine
1951
watercolor on paper
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Elaine Lustig Cohen
Baby Doll - Tennessee Williams
1956
offset-lithograph (paperback cover)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Elaine Lustig Cohen
Proust: a Biography - André Maurois
1957
offset-lithograph (paperback cover)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Elaine Lustig Cohen
Civilization on Trial and The World and the West - Arnold Toynbee
1958
offset-lithograph (paperback cover)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Elaine Lustig Cohen
Yvor Winters on Modern Poets
1959
offset-lithograph (paperback cover)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Elaine Lustig Cohen
The Ideal Reader - Jacques Rivière
1960
offset-lithograph (paperback cover)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Elaine Lustig Cohen
The Persian Letters - Montesquieu
1960
offset-lithograph (paperback cover)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Elaine Lustig Cohen
The Renaissance - Walter Pater
1961
offset-lithograph (paperback cover)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Elaine Lustig Cohen
Artists & Enemies - Arthur A. Cohen
1986
collage (maquette for book cover)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Alexander Gelman
Cover of Reklama Magazine
1989
offset-lithograph
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Martha Rosler
The Gray Drape
(cover commission for Modern Painters magazine)
2008
inkjet print
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Upon Mr. Staninough's Death

Deare reliques of a dislodg'd soule, whose lacke
Makes many a mourning Paper put on blacke;
O stay a while e're thou draw in thy Head,
And wind thy selfe up close in thy cold Bed:
Stay but a little while, untill I call
A summons, worthy of thy Funerall.
    Come then youth, Beauty, and Blood, all ye soft powers,
Whose silken flatteryes swell a few fond houres
Into a false Eternity, come man,
(Hyperbolized nothing!) know thy span. 
Take thine owne measure here, downe, downe, and bow
Before thy selfe in thy Idæa, thou
Huge emptinesse contract thy bulke, and shrinke
All thy wild Circle to a point! ô sinke
Lower, and lower yet; till thy small size
Call Heaven to looke on thee with narrow eyes;
Lesser and lesser yet, till thou begin
To show a face, fit to confesse thy kin,
Thy neighbour-hood to nothing! here put on
Thy selfe in this unfeign'd reflection; 
Here gallant Ladyes, this unpartiall glasse
(Through all your painting) showes you your own face,
These Death-seal'd Lipps are they dare give the lye
To the proud hopes of poor Mortality.
These curtain'd windowes, this selfe-prison'd eye,
Out-stares the Liddes of large-look't Tyranny.
This posture is the brave one: this that lyes
Thus low stands up (me thinkes) thus, and defyes
The world – All daring Dust and Ashes; onely you
Of all interpreters read nature true.

– Richard Crashaw, The Delights of the Muses (1646)