Poster, The Splendor of Dresden

This is a Poster. It was designed by Paul Rand. It is dated 1978 and we acquired it in 2002. Its medium is offset lithograph on cream paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of Marion S. Rand.

Its dimensions are

91.4 x 58.4 cm (36 x 23 in. )

It is signed

Signed [imprinted] in black ink, upper left corner: Design: Paul Rand

It is inscribed

Imprinted in black ink, across lower quarter of paper: The Splendor of Dresden; below, lower left quadrant: Five/ Centuries of/ Art/ Collecting; lower right quadrant: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C./ June 1-September 4, 1978/ An Exhibition from the German Democratic Republic; imprinted in gray ink, across lower edge of page: An exhibition from the collection of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden GDR, organized jointly by the National Gallery of Art, The Metropolitan/ Museum of Art and The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. It is made possible through a grant from the IBM Corporation,/ with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson, Jr. Charitable Trust, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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