Japanese Architecture: Japanese House, MoMA, NY [003]

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Title Japanese Architecture: Japanese House, MoMA, NY [003]
Photo Number Box 23, Architecture, 47
Description Photo of the interior of the Japanese House at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, New York
Creator Tierney, Lennox
Date 1954
Subject New York (N.Y.)--Museums--Photographs; Architecture, Japanese--Photographs; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)--Photographs; Museums--New York (State)--Photographs; Interior architecture--Photographs; Tierney, Lennox--Photography collections; Architecture; Rooms; Interior decoration; Shoji screens; Screens; Sliding doors; Exhibitions
Keywords New York; Japanese House; Museum of Modern Art; Bamboo mats
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Holding Institution Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Spatial Coverage New York; New York City (New York)
Caption on Slide Mus. of Mod Art Exhibit of Japanese Archit., shows open plan, 1954, N.Y.
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. The Japanese House was designed by Yoshimura Junzoo and originally built in Nagoya, Japan in 1953, then presented by the America-Japan Society of Tokyo to MoMA in New York for exhibition from 1954-1955. It was then given to Philadelphia. In 1958 it was reassembled at it current location in New York.
Type Image
Rights Management This material may be protected by copyright. Permission required for use in any form. For further information please contact the Multimedia Archivist, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah.
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Textual Date 1947-2004
ARK ark:/87278/s6417cwz
Digitization Specifications Original scanned on Nikon Coolscan 5000 and saved as 2700 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000.
Donor Lennox Tierney; Catherine Tierney
Setname uum_lctpc
ID 330510
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6417cwz
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