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Mondawmin Corporation stationery envelope
1955 · Lithograph
4 × 9 1/2" (10.2 × 24.1 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Alvin Lustig
Artist
Geometric Abstraction
Representation
None documented
5
Institutional Exhibitions
103
Works in Collection
207
Assets Indexed
1
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0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Two Graphic Designers: Bruno Munari and Alvin Lustig
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1955
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Signs in the Street
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954
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Recent Acquisitions, 1946�1953: Department of Architecture and Design
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1953–1954
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Good Design
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1950–1951
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Modern Art in Your Life
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1949
About
Why this artist matters now
Alvin Lustig was an American graphic designer and typographer whose work defined the visual language of postwar American modernism. Working primarily in book design, jacket illustration, and corporate identity, he synthesized European avant-garde principles with a distinctly American sensibility, establishing a vocabulary of geometric abstraction and restrained color that became foundational to mid-century design practice. His career, though cut short by his death in 1955, profoundly shaped the aesthetic conventions of publishing and branding for decades to follow.
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