Container Corporation of America, Chicago, Illinois, USA Search this
Medium:
Offset lithograph on glossy white paper
Dimensions:
34.6 × 27.6 cm (13 5/8 × 10 7/8 in.)
Type:
graphic design
Print
Object Name:
Print
Made in:
Aspen, CO, USA
Date:
1958–60
Description:
Advertisement for Container Corporation of America featuring a reproduction of a painting by Jacob Lawrence, consisting of a man seated on a large rock in profile, with four children grouped around him. He reaches out his large hands to a girl directly in front of him; he holds a small tree without leaves, while the girl has a small light blue bird in one hand. Printed in black, upper left, just above the artwork: Great Ideas of Western Man . . . one of a series; at bottom, underneath artwork: Marcus Aurelius on brotherhood / Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. / (Meditations, VIII: 59) / CONTAINER CORPORATOIN OF AMERICA [CCA logo].
Credit Line:
Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors
