Understanding Taxes
Object Details
- Client
- Internal Revenue Service, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Poster depicts several objects repeated three or four times: paint brush, image of a hamburger, a one-dollar coin, Model T, signage, baby carriage, among others. Three male figures sit cross-legged and their yellow sweaters read: TAX; above in red stitched letters: UNDERSTANDING / TAXES. In the background a partial face of a man holding a newspaper that reads: HELP WANTED.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Various Donors
- ca. 1977
- Accession Number
- 1981-29-277
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Poster
- Type
- Poster
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 78.9 x 35.6 cm (31 1/16 in. x 14 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_1981-29-277
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq488603c52-919d-4a69-b81c-e90908889fb6
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