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Save our Planet, Save Our Cities!

Poster
1971 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Black and white printed poster on paper depicting a section of midtown Manhattan incapsulated in a dome.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleSave our Planet, Save Our Cities! (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Half-tone and screen print
Brief description
Poster entitled 'Save our Planet, Save our Cities', by R. Buckminster Fuller. USA, 1971.
Physical description
Black and white printed poster on paper depicting a section of midtown Manhattan incapsulated in a dome.
Dimensions
  • Width: 692mm
  • Width: 745mm
Style
Production typeMass produced
Marks and inscriptions
Buckminster Fuller (signed)
Credit line
Given by Olivetti Ltd.
Object history
This is one of six anti-pollution posters sponsored by Olivetti Limited in 1971 and produced under the guidance of Jean Herzberg Lipman, a noted New York patron of the arts and longtime editor of 'Art in America'. With her impressive contacts, she attracted Roy Lichtenstein, Georgia O'Keefe, Edward Steichen, Ernest Trova, Alexander Calder, and Buckminster Fuller to the project. They each created a poster beginning 'Save Our Planet' then with a secondary slogan concerning the protection of water, air, wilderness, wildlife, people, and in this example, cities.
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
Associated objects
Collection
Accession number
E.137-1972

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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