Description: A-D MAGAZINE: Volume 8, Number 8 [1941]An Intimate Journal For Art Directors, Production Managers, and their AssociatesIncludes a 5-color Serigraph Cover and a 32-page insert designed by Alexey BrodovitchRobert L. Leslie and Percy Seitlin [Editors] A-D [An Intimate Journal For Art Directors, Production Managers, and their Associates]. New York: The Composing Room/P.M. Publishing Co., Volume 8, No. 1: October - November 1941. Original edition. Slim 12mo. Thick 5-color silk screen-printed wrappers designed by Harry Sternberg. 62 [16] pp. Illustrated articles and advertisements. Incredibly well-preserved: a fine copy.5.5 x 7.75 with 62 [16] pages of articles including a Silk screen cover by Harry Sternberg and a 32-page insert designed by Alexey Brodovitch:Silkscreen Color Printing by Harry Sternberg. Includes full-page b/w offset reproductions of serigraphs by Ruth Gikow, Harry Sternberg, Leonard Pytlak, Mervin Jules, Eugene Morley, Harry Gottlieb, Elizabeth Olds, Ruth Chaney, Hyman Warsager and Anthony Velonis.Hans Moller by Phil EverestGrowing Art: 32-page insert designed by Alexey Brodovitch. Devoted to work produced at Augustus Peck's Childrens Art Classes at the Whitney Museum.Editorial NotesBooks and PicturesA-D Shorts mentions Susanne Suba, Art Center in Chicago, Dan Smith , Hart Schaffner & Marx, Chicago Art Director's Club, Taylor Poore, Douglas C. McMurtrie, Gyorgy Kepes, Advanced Guard of Advertising Artists (Frank Barr, Herbert Bayer, Lester Beall, Gyorgy Kepes, E. McKnight Kauffer, Herbert Matter , L. Moholy-Nagy, Paul Rand, Ladislav Sutnar), Kaethe Kollwitz, Augustus Peck, Bill Williams, Art Director's CLub of Philadelphia .Also includes a book review of Organic Design by Eliot F. Noyes.Harry Sternberg (1904 – ?) was a pupil of George Bridgeman and Harry Wickey at the Art Student’s League. He worked for the Graphic Arts Division of the WPA Federal Art Project in New York City as a supervisor. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for creative work in etching and lithography and taught both at the Art Student’s League from 1933-1967. He also taught at the New School of Social Research before joining the Art Student’s League. His work has been shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the National Academy of Design. In addition, his work was included in the Fifty Modern Prints exhibit in 1932, 1933, 1934 and 1938. He relocated to California in 1967.PM magazine was the leading voice of the U. S. Graphic Arts Industry from its inception in 1934 to its end in 1942 (then called AD). As a publication produced by and for professionals, it spotlighted cutting-edge production technology and the highest possible quality reproduction techniques (from engraving to plates). PM and A-D also championed the Modern movement by showcasing work from the vanguard of the European Avant-Garde well before this type of work was known to a wide audience.
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