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Saul Bass
Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color1956

Not on view
Album cover designed by Saul Bass, with stacked horizontal color bands across a white and gray ground, a small photograph of a man conducting, and typeset track listings beside each band
Album back cover with cream background, six black-and-white portrait photographs of men arranged in two rows, dense columns of printed text including poems and liner notes, and a small portrait at upper left.
Designed by
Saul Bass
United States, New York, New York City, active United States, California, Los Angeles, 1920-1996
Produced by
Capitol Records/EMI International
United States, California, Los Angeles, founded 1942
Title
Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color
Date Made
1956
Medium
Offset lithography and letterpress
Dimensions
a) Album Cover: 12 3/8 × 12 3/8 × 1/8 in. (31.43 × 31.43 × 0.32 cm) Overall (Diameter) (b) Vinyl record): 1/8 × 11 7/8 in. (0.32 × 30.16 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Michael Hodgson
Accession Number
M.2011.133a-b
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Living in a Modern Way: California Design, 1930-1965. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013.
  • 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.
Selected Exhibition History
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 20, 2013 - June 3, 2013
  • 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". 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". November 2, 2013 - February 9, 2014
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 29, 2014 - July 6, 2014
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 29, 2014 - July 6, 2014
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012