Basie & Getz
1964
Artist
Seymour Chwast
Client
Lincoln Center
DIMENSIONS
36 x 18 in. (91.4 x 45.7 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.4383
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
United States
CREDIT LINE
Poster House Permanent Collection
KEYWORDS
Black, Concert, Entertainment, Instrument, Man, Music, New York, New York City
In Chwast’s poster promoting a concert at Lincoln Center, the two great jazz musicians Count Basie and Stan Getz are described in the simplified, rough-hewn forms and restricted color palette of German Expressionist woodcuts, fusing to create an almost abstract composition.
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