Alvin Lustig

Alvin Lustig
Screen Actor
1942
offset-print (magazine cover)
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Alvin Lustig
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
1944
lithograph (book cover)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Alvin Lustig
Men's Reporter
1945
lithograph (magazine cover)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous Photographer
Alvin Lustig
ca. 1945
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Alvin Lustig
Interiors
1946
lithograph (magazine cover)
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Richard Fish
Sheela's Department Store, Beverly Hills - Architectural Design by Alvin Lustig
ca. 1947
tricolor carbro print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Alvin Lustig
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
1947
lithograph (dust jacket)
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Alvin Lustig
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
1947
lithograph (dust jacket)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Alvin Lustig
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
1950
lithograph (dust jacket)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Alvin Lustig
Art Digest
1953
lithograph (magazine cover)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Alvin Lustig
Globe Collapsible Tube Corp.
1953
lithograph (cover of advertising brochure)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Alvin Lustig
Noonday Press New Books
1953
lithograph (cover of advertising brochure)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Alvin Lustig
The Flowers of Friendship edited by Donald Gallup
1954
lithograph (dust jacket)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Alvin Lustig
2 Pittori 3 Scultori
1954
lithograph (booklet cover for Venice Biennale)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Alvin Lustig
7 Types of Ambiguity by William Empson
1955
lithograph (dust jacket)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Alvin Lustig
Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion by Jane Harrison
1955
lithograph (dust jacket)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

from Works and Days

    Minde well all this, nor let it fly thy powrs,

To knowe what fits, the white springs earely flowrs;

Nor when raines timely fall; Nor when sharp colde

In winters wrath, doth men from worke withholde

Sit by smiths forges, nor warme tavernes hant;

Nor let the bitterest of the season dant

Thy thrift-arm'd paines, like idle Povertie;
For then the time is when th' industrious Thie

Upholdes, with all increase, his Familie.

With whose rich hardnes spirited, do thou,

Poore Delicacie flie; lest frost and snowe,

Fled for her love; Hunger sit both them out,

And make thee, with the beggers lazie gout,

Sit stooping to the paine, still pointing too 't,

And with a leane hand, stroke a foggie foot.

    The slothful man, expecting many things,

With his vaine hope, that cannot stretch her wings

Past need of necessaries for his kinde,

Turnes like a whirle-pit over, in his minde

All meanes that Rapine prompts to th' idle Hinde;

Sits in the taverne; and findes meanes to spend

Ill got; and ever, doth to worse contend.

– Hesiod (700 BC), translated by George Chapman (1618)