Object Details
- Client
- Jonas Mekas, Lithuanian, active USA, 1922 - 2019
- Printer
- Murray Poster Printing Co. Inc., New York, New York, USA
- Description
- Poster advertisement for the New American Cinema's programming at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque. Design consists of black text detailing the nature of the New American Cinema's programming and location, grouped and superimposed over yellow shapes. At top, in black text over a yellow, horizontal, rectangle: FILM-MAKERS' CINEMATHEQUE / 41st STREET THEATER / 125 W. 41ST ST. NYC 564-3818. At center, in black text over a yellow circle: NEW / AMERICAN / CINEMA; under this heading, also contained within the yellow circle, a list of filmmaker's surnames in two columns, separated by a black vertical line: ANGER MARKOPOULOS / BAILLIE MENKEN / BRAKHAGE SMITH / BREER VANDERBEEK / CONNOR WARHOL. Below, in back text on white ground (in between yellow shapes): UNDERGROUND · AVANT-GARDE SHOWCASE. At bottom, in black text over a narrow, yellow, horizontal rectangle: OPEN 7 NIGHTS · $1.50 / FOR DETAILS SEE OUR WEEKLY VILLAGE VOICE AD.
- Credit Line
- Gift from the George R. Kravis II Collection
- 1966
- Accession Number
- 2019-29-31
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Poster
- Type
- Poster
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on board
- Dimensions
- 55.9 × 35.6 cm (22 × 14 in.)
- made in
- New York, New York, United States
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_2019-29-31
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4d1851603-0ae1-4f37-a4e4-8404e2405e82
