Lester Beall letterhead (Letter to Alvin Lustig)
1951 · Letterpress
10 × 7 1/4" (25.4 × 18.4 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Lester Beall
American, 1903
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16
Works in Collection
33
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Posters from the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976
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The Artist as Adversary
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971
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Word and Image: Posters and Typography from the Graphic Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, 1879�1967
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
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Modern Art in Your Life
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1949
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The 28th Annual Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art of the New York Art Directors Club
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1949
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Lester Beall was an American graphic designer and typographer whose bold, geometric compositions defined modernist visual communication in the mid-twentieth century. Working across posters, corporate identity systems, and publication design, he combined sans-serif typography with flat planes of saturated color to create work of exceptional clarity and visual impact. His approach to information design established a vocabulary that influenced generations of graphic designers in the postwar era.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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