Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Poster for "Impressions/Expressions: Black American Graphics" with capitalized title at top center. Below, "Organized by the Studio Museum in Harlem / and the Gallery of Art, Howard University / Curated by Richard J. Powell / Circulated by the Smithsonian Institution / Traveling Exhibition Service" Below, a reproduction of a color lithograph featured in the exhibition. The image has a warm-hued border, including orange, red, and pink tones, around a central stylized image of a tiger with teeth bared, a tiny zebra-like figure on its hind-quarters, and a pair of figured, suspended above. Moons, chili peppers, bananas, and stars surround the figures that float above on a bright blue background. At lower right, a smaller, framed, image of a zebra in a landscape, similarly stylized. Slightly to the left, the image is signed "Margo." The reproduction is credited above: "Margo Humphrey, 'The Get-a-Way,' 1976, Color Lithograph" and below, "© Smithsonian Institution, 1980"
- Smithsonian Institution
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Collaborator
- The Studio Museum in Harlem, American, founded 1968
- Howard University Gallery of Art, American, founded 1928
- Print Maker
- Margo Humphrey, American, born 1942
- Producer
- Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
- Creator
- Richard J. Powell, American, probably born around 1955
- Contributor
- Smithsonian Institution's Travelling Exhibitions, Founded 1951
- Date
- 1980
- Credit Line
- Gift of Various Donors
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on paper
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Poster
- Type
- Poster
