Designer:

Josef Albers, German, 1888–1976, active USA, 1933–1976  Search this

Art Director:

Charles E. Murphy, American, 1933–2005  Search this

Publisher:

Command Records, Harrison, New Jersey  Search this

Client:

Command Records, Harrison, New Jersey  Search this

Subject:

Maurice Ravel, French, 1875–1937  Search this

Modest Mussorgsky, Russian, 1839–1881  Search this

Andre Vandernoot, Belgian, 1927–1991  Search this

Medium:

Offset lithograph on white wove paper, gate-fold cardboard

Dimensions:

30.5 × 30.5 cm (12 × 12 in.)

Type:

graphic design

Album cover

Object Name:

Album cover

Made in:

New Haven, CT, USA

Date:

1961

Description:

Cover design for an album published/released by the Command Records label that includes music orchestrated by Maurice Ravel, composed by Modest Mussorgsky, and conducted by Andre Vandernoot. Design features a black background with thin, vertical, parallel white lines of different lengths across the center, intersected by five black rectangles of different sizes at the bottom of the composition. Printed in white, along the top: PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION; in blue, directly below: MUSSORGSKY - RAVEL. Printed in blue, along the bottom: L'Orchestre De La Societé Des Concerts Du Conservatoire Andre Vandernoot – Conductor.

Credit Line:

Gift of Ellen Lupton

Accession Number:

2018-45-3

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4e03f4abe-06f0-48af-88d5-4583b398ed59

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_2018-45-3