Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Front cover depicts black and white photograph of Groucho Marx smoking a cigarette and below him is the phrase "with a new introduction by Bill Cosby," in white on black ground. Spine includes the title, "HELLO, I MUST BE GOING GROUCHO AND HIS FRIENDS" and the name of the author. Bottom of the spine depicts a black and white photograph of Groucho Marx holding a black bag inscribed in white "CITADEL PRESS." Back cover depicts the title mimicing the image on the front cover. The phrases "Hello, I MUST" and "BE GOING" represent his thick eyebrows. The Os in "GROUCHO" are enlarged to represent his glasses. The phrase "AND HIS FRIENDS" represents his mustache and the name of the author represents the cigar he's smoking. Lastly, the publishing information of the book is shaped like a bowtie.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Steven Brower, American, b. 1952
- Publisher
- Citadel Press
- Author
- Charlotte Chandler
- Date
- ca. 1987–92
- Credit Line
- Gift of Steven Heller
- Medium
- Lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 21 × 31.4 cm (8 1/4 × 12 3/8 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Book cover
- Type
- Book cover
