LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Art of the Americas Building, 3rd Level

Lester Beall was one of the most important and critically acclaimed American graphic designers of the twentieth century. Influenced by avant-garde European design of the 1920s and 1930s, Beall developed a modernist aesthetic characterized by a dynamic layering of words and images, jaunty photomontage, exuberant color, and above all, clarity of message.