Object Details
- Designer
- Martin Sharp, Australian, 1942 - 2013
- For
- Big O Posters Ltd., England, United Kingdom, active 1960s
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Large, central image of Bob Dylan in metallic gold and red, with singer wearing glasses containing text: "Blowing in the Mind" in metallic red. This portrait contains multi-sized radiating circular patterns in Dylan's hair, also in metallic gold and red. Additionally, portrait contains motifs from Albrecht Durer's series of woodblock prints for embroidery patterns, located in the middle of the singer's forehead as well as between circular patterns in upper section of poster. Also features a smaller image of Dylan in profile in the poster's lower section, in metallic red, facing left, in front of text: "Mister Tambourine Man" in metallic gold.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Sara and Marc Benda
- 1968
- Accession Number
- 2009-12-25
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Poster
- Type
- Poster
- Medium
- Lithograph on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 74.8 x 50.5 cm (29 7/16 x 19 7/8 in.)
- made in
- USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_2009-12-25
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4b24b9fb1-e21e-4bf7-b638-e6cd3bed8b32
