The Boy Next Door Just Discovered America
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Object Details
- Designer
- Tyler Smith, American, active late 20th century
- Photographer
- Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Black and white photo from the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York shows a hockey player in a USA jersey kneeling on the ice and raising his arms in a gesture of triumph. A teammate lies sprawled beneath him on the ground and a huddled group of players is visible in the back right. Beneath the photo, bold, black text on taupe ground reads "THE BOY NEXT DOOR / JUST DISCOVERED / AMERICA." Smaller black type to the left of this reads "Somewhere along the line we lost it. / We stopped believing. Then the kid / next door won a gold medal. A kid with / a runny nose and milk money danced up / to the tiger and spit in his eye. / It's not a fluke. Not an upset. Not a / longshot, dark horse or a David and / Goliath. / It's a miracle. / It's America. / Welcome back. / Congratulations to the United States / of America from Wonderland Park."
- Credit Line
- Gift of Various Donors
- 1980
- Accession Number
- 1981-29-114
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Poster
- Type
- Poster
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on paper
- made in
- USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1981-29-114
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4fdc12c11-8b24-487e-a2af-22737900b4be
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