Poster, The wise man looks into space...

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1973	Work on this object began.
1981	We acquired this object.
1983	Work on this object ended.
2014	We photographed this object.
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Poster, The wise man looks into space...

This is a Poster. It was designed by Jann Church Advertising & Graphic Design, Inc. and made for (as the client) Decision Making Information. It is dated ca. 1978 and we acquired it in 1981. Its medium is lithograph and embossing on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of Various Donors.

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die-cut screenprint on paper.
Gift of Experimental Jetset.
2014-40-1

Industrial Model Of Grid, Blocks and Grid

Industrial Model Of Grid, Blocks and Grid
cotton, linen, wool, acetate.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
2014-38-16

Horizontal rectangular print with fifty colorful squares arranged in a grid five squares high by ten squares wide. The primary color shifts in a gradient from yellow filling the squares at left to red at right. Each square is filled with thin vertical lines in a contrasting color shifting from blue to green to yellow from top to bottom and bordered in that same color. Thin white lines fill the spaces in between the squares and a thick white border at top and bottom. Faint handwritten words in pencil at lower right.

Print, League of Women Voters
screenprint on paper.
Gift of Joshua Mack.
1995-38-8

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screenprint on white paper.
Gift of the Museum of Graphic Art, New York.
1973-39-108

Drawing, Textile Design: Akropolis (Acropolis)

Drawing, Textile Design: Akropolis (Acropolis)
brush and gouache on paper.
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1988-62-153

Its dimensions are

68.5 x 49.6 cm (26 15/16 x 19 1/2 in.)

It is inscribed

Imprinted in white ink, lower right: Decision/Making/Information / Santa Ana, California and Washington, D.C.

Cite this object as

Poster, The wise man looks into space...; Designed by Jann Church Advertising & Graphic Design, Inc. (United States); Client: Decision Making Information; USA; lithograph and embossing on paper; 68.5 x 49.6 cm (26 15/16 x 19 1/2 in.); Gift of Various Donors; 1981-29-15

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2Dqi4/
Accession Number 1981-29-15
Object ID 18617365