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Object Timeline

-0001	We photographed this object.
1968	Work on this object began.
2009	We acquired this object.
2014	We exhibited this object.
2021	You found it!

Poster, Blowing in the Mind/Mister Tambourine Man, 1968

This is a Poster. It is dated 1968 and we acquired it in 2009. Its medium is lithograph on wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

For this poster featuring Bob Dylan, Sharp drew inspiration from the musician’s signature curly hair. Radiating circular motifs imitate the curls and also borrow from Albrecht Dürer’s woodcut, seen nearby. Just above Dylan’s forehead and scattered throughout, Sharp inserts the knot patterns that Dürer created in the early 16th century.

This object was donated by Marc Benda. It is credited Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.

Square of wool tapestry containing an almost frontal bust of a woman with dark hair knotted at the back, gazing to her left, on a red ground. Broad frame imitating gold set with cabochons and rectangular faceted jewels in blue, green, red and white. The woman is wearing a pink garment with perhaps a mantle of sky blue on her right shoulder; she wears a white band in her hair, which is mingled dark blue and brown wefts.

Square (Egypt), 5th–7th century
wool.
Gift of John Pierpont Morgan.
1902-1-72

An intricate knotted design in a circular pattern with a circular central motif.

Print, The Third Knot (Interlace Pattern with White Medallion), ca. 1506-7
woodcut on off-white laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
1944-37-1-b

Twelve concentric circles in red, orange and pink arranged in rows.

Sidewall, Tie-Dye, 1958
hand-dyed and folded japanese paper.
Gift of Barbara White.
2000-64-1

Our curators have highlighted 17 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

Poster with portrait of Elvis as a young man. Text in upper margin, in black letters, each inside a cream-colored square: ELVIS; in black letters on cream-colored rectangle, lower center: ELVIS BY ALBERT GOLDMAN / WITH THE RECOLLECTIONS OF LAMAR FIKE AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE; below this, in pink letters on black background: A KEVIN EGGERS BOOK.

Poster, Elvis, 1979
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Milton Glaser.
1979-42-2

Book Illustration, Karl Gerstner: Color Sound 15, Color pattern, 1973
paper.
Collection of Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
SIL39088001990217

Poster, Otis Rush & His Chicago Blues Band, Grateful Dead, The Canned Heat...
offset lithograph on white wove paper.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Schreyer.
1979-34-28

Its dimensions are

74.8 x 50.5 cm (29 7/16 x 19 7/8 in.)

Cite this object as

Poster, Blowing in the Mind/Mister Tambourine Man, 1968; USA; lithograph on wove paper; 74.8 x 50.5 cm (29 7/16 x 19 7/8 in.); Gift of Sara and Marc Benda; 2009-12-25

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Making Design.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2E1ik/
Accession Number 2009-12-25
Object ID 18731757