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Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

Modern Art in Advertising: designs for Container Corporation of America.

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Modern Art in Advertising: designs for Container Corporation of America.
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Bib. Number0008705

Modern Art in Advertising: designs for Container Corporation of America.

PublisherTheobald
Place PublishedChicago
Year
Date & Collation116pp.Illus.Biog.Prefatory texts by Daniel Catton RICH, Walter P.PAEPCKE, Egbert Jacobson.
LanguageEnglish
More InformationBook of exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago April-July 1945, also shown in other American cities 1945-1946. 90 designs by 44 artists from 28 countries which first appeared in issues of Time, Fortune or Business Week between May 1937 and June 1946. Themes ranged over the saving of waste paper to the supply of products throughout the world in paper containers. Part of the campaign became known as the United Nations Series.
86-87(2 illus) Henry Moore.
Photograph of Moore by Felix H. Man, short biography, and full-page colour illustration of Shelter Drawing, 1941 drawing dated September 1944, with the wording: American foods in paper packages aid Britain.""