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Fred Ludekens
Los Angelescirca 1960

Not on view
Vintage travel poster for American Airlines, featuring a nighttime aerial view of Los Angeles with bold white searchlight beams, palm tree silhouettes, and yellow and white lettering
Designer
Fred Ludekens
United States, California, 1900-1982
Made for
American Airlines
Title
Los Angeles
Date Made
circa 1960
Medium
Offset lithography
Dimensions
Sheet: 39 5/8 × 30 1/4 in. (100.65 × 76.84 cm) Primary support: 43 3/4 × 34 1/4 in. (111.13 × 87 cm) Frame: 47 × 31 1/2 × 1 3/4 in. (119.38 × 80.01 × 4.45 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Martha and Bruce Karsh in honor of the museum's 50th anniversary
Accession Number
M.2015.22.29
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • Gifts on the Occasion of LACMA's 50th Anniversary. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2015.
  • Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915-1985. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2017.