Album Cover, Provocative Percussion, Vol. III

Josef Albers

1961

offset lithograph on white wove paper, gate-fold cardboard, black vinyl 33 1/3 rpm record

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

A pattern of blue and white dots, based on a grid, are arranged on a solid black field.The title, PROVOCATIVE PERCUSSION, VOL.III are printed in white across the bottom edge. At top right is printed STEREO / RS 821 SD and at top right is the Command Records logo. At bottom left under the title is @1961 Grand Award Record Co., INC. New York N.Y. Gift of Mathew Weaver in honor of Lenora J. and Robert J. Weaver