Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Depiction of a room with green walls, red hard wood floor, and yellow wall moldings. A man with a red sweater and a receding hairline leans out the window, where a partial view of a cityscape is shown. A table and chair are on the far side of the room with white three dimensional letters of varying sizes and shapes lying around the furniture. A large three dimensional M leans against the left adjacent wall, a large two dimensional G is hung on the back wall, and a rug lies under the man's feet, imprinted with N in white on black with a yellow border. There is a standing ashtray on the rug that holds a lit cigarette. A shelf hangs on the left adjacent wall with three dimensional letters sitting on it that read "THE." From left to right, the staggered letters around the room read "MACGUFFIN." Text below, in white: The Macguffin/ A NOVEL BY/ STANLEY ELKIN/ AUTHOR OF/ THE MAGIC KINGDOM AND GEORGE MILLS. Text on spine, in black: The Macguffin STANLEY ELKIN.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Fred Marcellino, American, 1939 – 2001
- Author
- Stanley Elkin, American, 1930 – 1995
- Credit Line
- Gift of Steven Heller
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 21.4 × 29.2 cm (8 7/16 × 11 1/2 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Book cover
- Type
- Book cover
