Runner in the City
Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
Catalogue
- Year
- 1924
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 13.1 × 12.8 cm (5 3/16 × 5 1/16 in.) Mount: 18.5 × 20.5 cm (7 5/16 × 8 1/16 in.) Frame: 17 1/2 × 17 1/2 in. (44.5 × 44.5 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- El Lissitzky
Artist
Painting
El Lissitzky was a Russian and Soviet artist, active as a painter, illustrator, designer, printmaker, photographer, and architect. He was an important figure of the avant-garde, helping develop suprematism with his mentor, Kazimir Malevich, and designing numerous exhibition displays and propaganda works for the Soviet Union.
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Ispaniia. !No Pasaran! (Spain! They Shall Not Pass!)
1937 · Printed book with letterpress and photolithography, embossing and collaged photograph
The Industry of Socialism (Industriia sotsializma)
1935 · Letterpress and gravure, complete set of 7 volumes in a slipcase
Tekhnicheskaia propaganda
1933 · Book
SSSR na stroike. Ezhemesiachnyi illiustrirovannyi zhurnal. Posviashchen 15 letiiu krasnoi armii (USSR in Construction, Monthly Illustrated Journal: Fifteen Years of the Red Army), no. 2
1933 · Journal, photogravure printed
SSSR stroit sotsializm (USSR Builds Socialism)
1933 · Album illustrated with photomontages and decorated cloth-backed cream boards
Arkhitektura sovremennogo Zapada (Western Architecture Today)
1932 · Illustrated book with gilt lettered blue cloth cover, decorated title-page and photomontages
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- El Lissitzky
- Year
- 1924
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 13.1 × 12.8 cm (5 3/16 × 5 1/16 in.) Mount: 18.5 × 20.5 cm (7 5/16 × 8 1/16 in.) Frame: 17 1/2 × 17 1/2 in. (44.5 × 44.5 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1924-002507
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified