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JOHN MASSEY (1931- )
CHICAGO HAS A GREAT LAKE. 1968.
49 1/2x34 3/4 inches, 125 3/4x88 1/4 cm. [Screen Print Diversified.] Condition B: large replaced loss in upper left corner and image; repaired tears at edges, some into image; replaced losses at edges, creases and overpainting at edges and in image; missing margins, as often seen, and printer's text along upper left edge.
Massey was a designer and art director who began working for the graphic-forward Container Corporation of America in 1957, eventually becoming that company's director of design and advertising. He went on to form his own company, a subsidiary of CCA, called the Center for Advanced Research in Design (CARD). "His work is precise, yet emotional. Geometric, yet spiritual. Mathematical, but still feeling" (Graphis 135, vol 24, p. 10). "It was after a trip to Europe on which he had been impressed by the civic graphics of Zurich and other cities that John Massey conceived the idea of a planned civic graphics programme for Chicago . . . America's first civic cultural communications programme seeks to express through graphic design the virtues and diversity of the city's cultural life" (ibid. p. 14). Graphis 135, vol 24, p. 14, MoMA 1493.2000.
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