Item Information
Title: Photograph of artists at the opening of Modern Art in Advertising at the Art Institute of Chicago
Date: 1945 April 27
Physical Details: 1 photographic print : silver gelatin ; 24 x 20 cm.
Description: Silver gelatin photograph of artists at the opening of Modern Art in Advertising exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Handwritten on verso: Modern Art in Advertising: Designs for Container Corporation of America; at the opening at the Art Institute of Chicago; standing - left to right; Man Ray, Fernand Leger, Gene Walther; Y.J. Pique; kneeling - left to right; Alfred Pellan and Leonard Lionni.; All these men are contributing artists and Mr. Lionni is also art director of N.W. Ayer and Son; 1945.
Identification on verso (stamped): Gordon Coster, 540 North Mich. Ave., Chicago, Ill.
Item is a copyprint of a photograph.
Creator: Coster, Gordon H., 1906-1988, photographer
Forms part of: Katharine Kuh papers, 1875-1994, bulk 1930-1994
Rights Statement: Current copyright status is undetermined
Citation Information: Gordon H. Coster. Photograph of artists at the opening of Modern Art in Advertising at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1945 April 27. Katharine Kuh papers, 1875-1994. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Digital ID: 9867