Calendar with pixelated background of a photo of a large apple. It has a color gradient, beginning green on the left, yellow in the center, and ending red on the right. The colors are muted by some grey pixels that add more depth to the image. The pixels range in size, with the highlight of the apple showing the smallest pixels, and the shadows showing the largest. The top tenth of the image shows fourteen columns and four rows of black, bolded, and serif text. The top row reads, “S S M T W T F S S M T W T F,” with numbers below, counting up to 31. The final row also reads, “AUGUST 1970.” In very small print, in the bottom right, it reads, “Thirty second of a series by/ S. D. Scott Printing Company Inc./ Designed by Russell S. Winricms”

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Calendar, August 1970, 1970

This is a Calendar. It is dated 1970. Its medium is lithograph on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

The exploded dot pattern of this calendar exposes the techniques of halftone printing, in which microscopic dots of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black vary in size and spacing to create subtle shifts in color and tone. Here enlarged, the dots allow the eye to see both the abstract pattern and the image of a fruit.

It is credited Gift of Unknown Donor.