North Cascades, State of Washington
Object Details
- Designer
- Ivan Chermayeff, American, b. England, 1932 - 2017
- Chermayeff & Geismar Associates, New York, New York, USA
- Client
- United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, American,
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Against a black border, the central image, placed in the upper quadrant, is an abstracted landscape design of brightly colored cut out shapes that suggest water, trees, mountains, and sky. The colors are vivid blues, greens, yellow, and lavender against a black mountain range that cuts across the image and merges with the black border of the poster. Below the image in white text at right, is the title: North Cascades / State of Washington
- Credit Line
- Gift of Ken Friedman
- 1972
- Accession Number
- 1997-19-242
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Poster
- Type
- Poster
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on heavy, coated white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 106.7 x 71.1 cm (42 x 28 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_1997-19-242
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4bb2ce4b6-2b5c-4fae-bca2-0e7a3b273be0
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