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Call Number:
MSS 60
Holdings:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Creator:
Hamilton, Richard, 1922–2011
Title(s):
This is Tomorrow
Date:
1956
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series X: Posters
Part of Collection:
Box 6, item 27
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Magda Cordell McHale
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
In Copyright

The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, also belong to the Yale Center for British Art. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
A screen print of Richard Hamilton's <title>Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?</title>, produced for an exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, August 9-September 9, 1956. The exhibition was divided into various collaborative groups of architects and artists. Each of these groups produced its own poster for the exhibition. John McHale was in Group Two with Richard Hamilton and John Voelcker.
Physical Description:
1 poster :; screen print with black ink ; 77 x 51 cm
Genre:
Posters, Screen prints, Exhibition announcements, Abstract art, Collage books, Collages (visual works), Drawings (visual works), Ephemera, Exhibition catalogs, Periodicals, Photographs, Sketchbooks, and Tear sheets
Subject Terms:
Art, Modern
Collage
Dot zero
Exhibitions
Information theory
Lady Clare magazine
McHale, John. Aluminum head.
McHale, John. Shoe-life stories
McHale, John. Transistor
McHale, John. Why I took to the washers in luxury flats
Pop art
Probabilities
Subject Period:
20th Century
Associated People/Groups:
This Is Tomorrow (1956 : Whitechapel Art Gallery)
Whitechapel Art Gallery
Finding Aid Title:
John McHale archive
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/11090.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2798450
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2798450?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1