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Sidewall, Compendium
This is a sidewall. It is dated 1968 and we acquired it in 1970. Its medium is screenprinted on paper. It is a part of the Wallcoverings department.
Newson’s Compendium exhibits distorted circular motifs and shocking red colorations that reflect the op art aesthetic. Op art celebrated optical illusions created during the visual process; this vigorous red wallpaper would have been used selectively as an accent wall, adding warmth and balancing the abundant white walls typical of the 1960s.
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Will Not Fade into the Background.
This object was
donated by
Arthur Sanderson & Sons, Ltd..
It is credited Gift of Arthur Sanderson & Sons, Ltd..
- Sidewall, Ida
- screen printed.
- Gift of Arthur Sanderson & Sons, Ltd..
- 1970-1-1
- Panton Stacking Side Chair
- injection molded luran s thermoplastic.
- Gift of Robert Blaich.
- 1977-1-1
- Sacco Chair
- leather, polystyrene pellets.
- Gift of International Contract Furnishings, Inc..
- 1981-59-1
Our curators have highlighted 5 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Poster, Jefferson Airplane
- offset lithograph on white wove paper.
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Schreyer.
- 1979-34-6
- Sidewall, Ziggurat
- screen-printed on paper.
- Gift of Arthur Sanderson & Sons, Ltd..
- 1970-1-6
- Drawing, Cartoon for "The Yellow Submarine"
- brush and acrylic paint, pen and ink on two sheets of cellulose acetate.
- Museum purchase through gift of Erskine Hewitt.
- 1969-73-1
Its dimensions are
92 x 50.5 cm (36 1/4 x 19 7/8 in.)
Cite this object as
Sidewall, Compendium; England; screenprinted on paper; 92 x 50.5 cm (36 1/4 x 19 7/8 in.); Gift of Arthur Sanderson & Sons, Ltd.; 1970-1-14
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Making Design.
