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1960

  • Work on this object began.

1993

  • We acquired this object.

2016

2025

  • You found it!

Book Cover, The New Architecture of Europe

This is a Book cover. It was designed by Elaine Lustig Cohen. It is dated 1960 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: 21 × 28.6 cm (8 1/4 × 11 1/4 in.)

It is inscribed

Printed in red, vertically, front cover upper right: elaine lustig; in white, front cover upper left: the new / architecture / of europe; in black, below: G. E. KIDDER SMITH / an illustrated guidebook and appraisal / with photographs of 200 postwar buildings of Europe / Meridian Books MG33 $1.95

Cite this object as

Book Cover, The New Architecture of Europe; Designed by Elaine Lustig Cohen (American, 1927–2016); lithograph on paper; H x W: 21 × 28.6 cm (8 1/4 × 11 1/4 in.); Gift of Tamar Cohen and Dave Slatoff; 1993-31-28

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