Colors of Japan
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Object Details
- Designer
- Ikko Tanaka, Japanese, 1930–2002
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Poster on light gray ground features an abstract shape made up of black “brushstrokes” dotted with “scraps” of color, in orange, blue, green, red, and yellow. Lower margin on darker ground, in black ink: Ikko Tanaka: Colors of Japan / THE SMITHSONIAN & ART DIRECTORS CLUB OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON / & THE JAPAN SOCIETY & SOCIETY OF PUBLICATION DESIGNERS & SHOSHIN SOCIETY.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Ann Hysa Dorfsman
- 1984
- Accession Number
- 1983-72-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Poster
- Type
- Poster
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 99.9 x 64 cm (39 5/16 x 25 3/16 in.)
- made in
- Japan and 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_1983-72-1
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq41f34d95a-b148-46eb-aafb-1021a6219736
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