Bookjacket for "Three Lives" by Gertrude Stein, New Directions Books,
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Object Details
- Designer
- Alvin Lustig, (American, 1915–1955)
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Bookjacket design. Design on light, mint-green ground. Cover contains three abstract depictions of horizontal female nudes. Top and bottom forms are white and have heads on left side, middle form is black has head on right. All three forms have “breasts” in the form of two parallel circles. In top and bottom forms, they are outlined in thin black lines, in middle form, in thin white lines. Surrounding all forms are small, vertical thin lines in black, possibly meant to depict grass on which forms are laying.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Tamar Cohen and Dave Slatoff
- 1947
- Accession Number
- 1993-31-165-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright Notice
- © Elaine Lustig Cohen
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Book Cover
- Type
- Book Cover
- Medium
- Lithograph in blue, green and black ink on white shiny wove paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 18.5 x 16.2 cm (7 5/16 x 6 3/8 in.)
- 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_1993-31-165-1
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4557d53ac-9316-4f6e-9ecc-6f6dfb76d915
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