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1992

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1995

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Invitation, The Art School is Finally Giving a Party to Welcome Tom Lawson

This is a Invitation. It was designed by Edward Fella. It is dated 1992 and we acquired it in 1995. Its medium is offset lithograph on tan paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Edward Fella. It is credited Gift of Edward Fella.

Its dimensions are

43.2 x 27.9 cm (17 x 11 in. )

It is signed

Signature imprinted in black ink, verso, lower right quadrant, running upward, sideways: Lettered and lay out: Edw. Fella

It is inscribed

Recto: Imprinted in black across pper half of sheet: The ART School/ is/ FINALLY GIVING A/ Party/ to/ WELCOME/ Tom Lawson; from center to lower edge, running downward, sideways: Please Come and bring A guest DRESS WARMLY!/ live MUSIC/ between 2 AND 3p.m. (early suppers-- 5 pm); across left edge, running downward, sideways: at Nancy Mitchnick's Studio near GORMAN--LARGE/COMPOUND/ SURROUNDED/ BY A CYCLONE/ fence/ Surrounded by Mountains/ on highway 138, 1/2 MILE PASTN2ROAD/ (4MI. OFF I-5); across right edge, running downward, sideways: on Sunday, December 6 snow date: the Following sunday, dec 13TH 1992 Verso: Across lower left quadrant, at various angles in the form of a map, directions, locations (e.g. GORMAN, 138, UP, HERE).

Cite this object as

Invitation, The Art School is Finally Giving a Party to Welcome Tom Lawson; Designed by Edward Fella (American, b. 1938); USA; offset lithograph on tan paper; 43.2 x 27.9 cm (17 x 11 in. ); Gift of Edward Fella; 1995-42-12

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