Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- On blue ground, the upper composition filled with an askew grid of white rectaqngles, some of which use red ground to create white letter and number forms, spelling: IMAGES / OF AN / ERA THE / AMERICAN / POSTER / 1945-75 across six lines. Printed black text below.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Ivan Chermayeff, American, b. England, 1932 - 2017
- Chermayeff & Geismar Associates, New York, New York, USA
- Client
- The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA
- Date
- 1974
- Credit Line
- Gift of Ken Friedman
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 88.7 x 61.0 cm (34 15/16 x 24 in. )
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Poster
- Type
- Poster
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