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Alvin Lustig
Trade Cardcirca 1940

Not on view
Promotional print with a kimono-shaped figure assembled from modular typographic shapes in gray, crimson, and gold, flanked by two columns of all-caps crimson text on cream paper
Artist or Maker
Alvin Lustig
United States, New York, New York City, active California, Los Angeles, 1915-1955
Title
Trade Card
Date Made
circa 1940
Medium
Letterpress
Dimensions
10 3/4 x 8 in. (27.31 x 20.32 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Elaine Lustig Cohen
Accession Number
M.2009.135
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Kaplan, Wendy, ed. California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011.
  • Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Living in a Modern Way: California Design, 1930-1965. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013.
Selected Exhibition History
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 20, 2013 - June 3, 2013
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". July 6, 2013 - September 29, 2013
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". November 2, 2013 - February 9, 2014
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 29, 2014 - July 6, 2014
Copyright
© Alvin Lustig

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