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Bookjacket for "Three Lives" by Gertrude Stein, New Directions Books,

Cooper Hewitt

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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

Date

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

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department

Data Source

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4557d53ac-9316-4f6e-9ecc-6f6dfb76d915

Record ID

chndm_1993-31-165-1

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