Johann Sebastian Bach
1971
Designer
Milton Glaser
DIMENSIONS
33 x 22 in. (83.8 x 55.9 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.2025.1486
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
United States
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Mirko Ilić
KEYWORDS
Classical, Entertainment, Man, Music, Psychedelic, White

This is one of many posters Glaser designed for Columbia Records (the first was his famous poster for Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits of 1966). This one, showing a portrait of the German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach above his signature and a landscape with geometric perspective lines, is also filtered through a dazzling psychedelic lens. The poster was intended to be packaged with the album The Briggs Bach Book (a detail from it also appeared on the album cover), a record featuring the concert organist E. Power Briggs and released by Columbia in 1971.

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