Folding Cartons Plus, from the Early Series

Gyorgy Kepes, Folding Cartons Plus, from the Early Series, ca. late 1930s-early 1940s, gouache on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.148
Gyorgy Kepes, Folding Cartons Plus, from the Early Series, ca. late 1930s-early 1940s, gouache on paperboard, sheet: 18 1⁄2 x 15 1⁄8 in. (47.0 x 38.4 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.148

Artwork Details

Title
Folding Cartons Plus, from the Early Series
Artist
Date
ca. late 1930s-early 1940s
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
sheet: 18 1⁄2 x 15 1⁄8 in. (47.0 x 38.4 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Container Corporation of America
Mediums
Mediums Description
gouache on paperboard
Classifications
Subjects
  • Object — other — flag
  • Landscape — celestial — star
  • Landscape — celestial — sun
  • Landscape — celestial — moon
Object Number
1984.124.148
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1984.124.148

Works by this artist (17 items)

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Gyorgy Kepes, One Integrated Flow of Production, from the Early Series, ca. late 1930s, gelatin silver print, gouache, and paper on paper mounted on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.146
One Integrated Flow of Production, from the Early Series
Artist
Dateca. late 1930s
gelatin silver print, gouache, and paper on paper mounted on paperboard
Not on view
Gyorgy Kepes, "There are other forms of culture beside physical science; and I should be profoundly sorry to see the fact forgotten, or even to observe a tendency to starve, or cripple, literary, or aesthetic, culture for the sake of science." --Thomas Henry Huxley, Scientific Education, 1869. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man., 1958, acrylic and graphite on paper mounted on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.157
“There are other forms of culture beside physical science;…
Artist
Date1958
acrylic and graphite on paper mounted on paperboard
Not on view
Gyorgy Kepes, Paperboard Goes to War, from the Early Series, ca. late 1930s-early 1940s, gouache on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.153
Paperboard Goes to War, from the Early Series
Artist
Dateca. late 1930s-early 1940s
gouache on paperboard
Not on view
Gyorgy Kepes, Untitled, 1968, color lithograph, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1968.109.3
Untitled
Artist
Date1968
color lithograph
Not on view

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Artist
Date1935-1942
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Not on view
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Date1936
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Day’s End
Artist
Date1939
opaque watercolor on fiberboard
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