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1957

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1993

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Book Cover, Sights and Spectacles

This is a Book cover. It was designed by Elaine Lustig Cohen and written by Mary Therese McCarthy. It is dated 1957 and we acquired it in 1993. Its medium is lithograph on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Tamar Cohen. It is credited Gift of Tamar Cohen and Dave Slatoff.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 18.4 x 22.9 cm (7 1/4 in. x 9 in.)

It is inscribed

Printed in white script, vertically, front cover lower right: e. lustig; in black, front cover upper right: sights / and / spectacles; in white, below: THEATRE / CHRONICLES / 1937-1956; in white and orange, below: mary / mccarthy

Cite this object as

Book Cover, Sights and Spectacles; Designed by Elaine Lustig Cohen (American, 1927–2016); Written by Mary Therese McCarthy (American, 1912–1989); USA; lithograph on paper; H x W: 18.4 x 22.9 cm (7 1/4 in. x 9 in.); Gift of Tamar Cohen and Dave Slatoff; 1993-31-18

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