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Drawing, Design for Manhattan Records Label
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Paula Scher. It is dated ca. 1984 and we acquired it in 1996. Its medium is pen and red, black ink, color pencil, red marking pen, collage on tracing paper mounted on board. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Scher’s inspiration for this record label came from Piet Mondrian’s celebrated 1942–43 painting Broadway Boogie Woogie, a square canvas covered in an irregular grid of primary colors—a response to the street grid of Manhattan and the syncopated beats of jazz music. In this working drawing, the designer calls out the PMS (Pantone Matching System) numbers for each color.
This object was
donated by
Paula Scher.
It is credited Gift of Paula Scher.
- Poster, Atoms for Peace
- offset lithograph on paper.
- Gift of Arthur Cohen and Daryl Otte in memory of Bill Moggridge.
- 2013-42-10
- Pezzato Vase
- fused colored glass squares, reheated, blown and shaped.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment in honor of Piera Maria....
- 1998-54-1
- Poster, Designtalk: Lecture Series at Cooper Union
- lithograph on heavy white paper.
- Gift of Milton Glaser.
- 1997-28-1
Our curators have highlighted 6 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Carlton Room Divider Room Divider
- wood, plastic laminate, metal.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisition Endowment.
- 1986-4-1
- Sample, Ribbons, 1957
- 81% cotton, 19% polyester.
- Gift of Alexander H. Girard.
- 1969-165-63
- Drawing, Study 140, "The Magic Fire-Scene," from Die Walküre by Richard Wagner
- color pencil, graphite on cream wove paper.
- Gift of the Estate of John De Cesare.
- 1982-25-61
Its dimensions are
20.5 x 21.2 cm (8 1/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for Manhattan Records Label; Designed by Paula Scher (American, b. 1948); USA; pen and red, black ink, color pencil, red marking pen, collage on tracing paper mounted on board; 20.5 x 21.2 cm (8 1/16 x 8 3/8 in.); Gift of Paula Scher; 1996-88-6
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color.
