Object Details
Designer
Seymour Chwast, American, b. 1931
Client
Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Vertical retangle. Beach scene with female figure in blue bikini reclining on the sand at center left. A palm tree near the shoreline and the ocean beyond. The rest of the scene populated with art-making tools: the sun over the ocean is an artist's palette, and other art -making objects protrude from the sand, including scissors, an easel and canvas with a painting of a beach scene, T-squares, a tube of paint, paintbrushes, a pen, pencil, charcoal pencil, camera, and razor blade.
Credit Line
Gift of Various Donors
Date
before 1980
Accession Number
1981-29-84
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
graphic design
Object Name
Poster
Type
Poster
Medium
Lithograph on paper
Dimensions
53.2 x 40.5 cm (20 15/16 x 15 15/16 in.)
made in
USA
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Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_1981-29-84