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Two-dollar bill, obverse and reverse

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Description: Two-dollar bill, obverse and reverse
TitleTwo-dollar bill, obverse and reverse
Creator nameUnknown
Creator nationality/cultureUnknown
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1953
Object typePrint
MaterialsUnknown
DimensionsUnknown
LocationUnknown
Accession numberUnknown
SubjectsBank notesPaper money design
Status1953 series, signed by Ivy Baker Priest and George M. Humphrey
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Chapter 2: Currency as Convention
Sophie Cras
Description: The Artist as Economist: Art and Capitalism in the 1960s
The Artist as Economist: Art and Capitalism in the 1960s
~Long before Andy Warhol created his Dollar Bill series and Larry Rivers his French Money paintings, Walter Benjamin had perceived the importance of such works, albeit in a different form. “A descriptive analysis of banknotes is needed,” Benjamin wrote in 1928....
Author
Sophie Cras
PublisherYale University Press
PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art
Copyright© 2019 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.62-99
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00187.003
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19823&redirecttoanchor=46957
Chapter subject tags:Art--Economic aspectsMoney in artWarhol, Andy, 1928-1987Pop artRivers, Larry, 1925-2002

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Description: One-dollar bill, obverse and reverse
One-dollar bill, obverse and reverse
Posted by:John Carlson
Mar 12
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1935
Object typePrint
One-dollar bill, obverse and reverse
One-dollar bill, obverse and reverse
Description: 10,000 francs (Bonaparte) banknote, obverse; 10,000 francs (Bonaparte) banknote,...
10,000 francs (Bonaparte) banknote, obverse; 10,000 francs (Bonaparte) banknote, overprinted in red with equivalent value in new francs, obverse
Posted by:John Carlson
Mar 12
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Object typePrint
10,000 francs (Bonaparte) banknote,...
10,000 francs (Bonaparte) banknote, obverse; 10,000 francs (Bonaparte) banknote, overprinted in red with equivalent value in new francs, obverse
Description: 5,000 francs (French Empire) banknote, obverse
5,000 francs (French Empire) banknote, obverse
Posted by:John Carlson
Mar 12
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Object typePrint
5,000 francs (French Empire) banknote,...
5,000 francs (French Empire) banknote, obverse
Description: 100 new francs (Bonaparte) banknote, obverse and reverse
100 new francs (Bonaparte) banknote, obverse and reverse
Posted by:John Carlson
Mar 12
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1959
Object typePrint
100 new francs (Bonaparte) banknote,...
100 new francs (Bonaparte) banknote, obverse and reverse
Description: Preparatory drawing for the 10,000 francs banknote
Preparatory drawing for the 10,000 francs banknote
Posted by:John Carlson
Mar 12
Creator nameClément-Serveau
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator roleDraftsman
Creation datec. 1955
Object typeDrawing
LocationBanque de France, Paris
Preparatory drawing for the 10,000...
Preparatory drawing for the 10,000 francs banknote
Description: Flatbed press (foreground) for printing on moistened paper, early 1950s; and rotary...
Flatbed press (foreground) for printing on moistened paper, early 1950s; and rotary press for dry intaglio printing, late 1950s, at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, DC
Posted by:John Carlson
Mar 12
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation date1964
Object typePhotograph
LocationHistory of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 1862–1962 (Washington, DC: Treasury Department, 1964)
Flatbed press (foreground) for printing...
Flatbed press (foreground) for printing on moistened paper, early 1950s; and rotary press for dry intaglio printing, late 1950s, at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, DC
Description: Contact sheet
Contact sheet
Posted by:John Carlson
Mar 12
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation date1969
Object typePhotograph
MaterialsContact sheet
Contact sheet
Contact sheet
Description: Bond issued by the Secret Army Organization, obverse and reverse
Bond issued by the Secret Army Organization, obverse and reverse
Posted by:John Carlson
Mar 12
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1960
Object typePrint
LocationCollection of Sergeant Major (ret.) Herbert A. Friedman
Bond issued by the Secret Army...
Bond issued by the Secret Army Organization, obverse and reverse

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