Behrens Poster Archive

 

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Identifier

203

Creation Date

2022

Description

Alt Text: Poster with an image of a standing man wearing a top hat holding an instrument. adjacent to a circle outlined in black. Text in brown, gray, and black letters.

Transcription: A Poster Exhibition About the index of American Design. The consensus...seems to be that if you strive hard enough to get to India you are bound to get to some America or other.-Arthur Koestler. The Art of Creation.

Description: A poster based on a painting by Ingrid Selmer Larsen of a navigator figurine created as a part of the Index of American Design program of the United States government that ran from 1935 to 1942.

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Index of American Design

Series Title

Index of American Design

Series Description

The twenty-eight posters in this series were designed in 2022-2023 by Roy R. Behrens, UNI Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Scholar. His intention was to celebrate the efforts of the original American craftspeople, the artists who made the interpretive images, and government sponsorship of the Index of American Design. Many more of the original images, as well as more information, can be found online at the National Gallery of Art.

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Index of American Design--Posters;

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