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Description
A catalog of outstanding works or art acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art between 1965–1975, exemplifying the character and scope of this museum’s collecting during that decade. Over one hundred color plates, meeting critical fidelity standards of fine-arts production, were necessary.
Credits
Designer: Ken Parkhurst
Photographer: Ed Cornachio
Production manager: Jean-Claude Muller
Editor: Kenneth Donahue
Size: 8.75 x 10 inches
Pages: 260 plus cover
Quantity printed: first printing of 35,000
Price: $10.00
Typefaces: Text in 8/10, 9/11 Linotype Garamound #3, Display in foundry Garamond
Typesetters: Vernon Simpson Typographers and John G. Frank Linotype, Vernon Simpson Typographers
Printer: Graphic Press
Printing method: sheet-fed offset; black/white illustrations 150-line screen, grey illustrations 300-line screen, and 4-color plus special grey 150-line screen
Paper: Lustro Offset Enamel Dull, 100 lb. book white
Paper manufacturer: S.D. Warren Company
Paper supplies: Crown Zellerbach Corporation
Binder: Edition Binding Company
Binding materials: Light Kromekote, 12 pt. white, coated one side, made by Champion Paper Company, supplied by Blake, Moffitt & Towne
Binding method: Smyth sewn, adhesive bound
Endpapers: Linweave, 70 lb. olive mist
Endpaper manufacturer: Brown Paper Company
Paper supplies: LaSalle Paper Company
Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum Of Art
