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ID: 500021030
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500021030
 
Record Type: Person
Bass, Saul (American graphic designer, 1920-1996)

Note: Bass' best known work remains the title designs he produced for various Hollywood films, album covers, and logo designs, including the Getty square wordmark.

Names:
Bass, Saul (preferred,V,index,English-P,NA,U)
Bass, Saul (Dutch-P,NA)
Saul Bass (V,display)
בס, סול (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)

Roles:
artist (preferred)
graphic designer
commercial artist
typographer
photographer
film director
designer

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Bronx (New York City, New York state, United States) (borough)
Died:  Los Angeles (Los Angeles county, California, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
employee was ....  Fletcher, Alan  
......................  (English graphic designer, typographer, and author, 1931-2006) [500125487]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Bass, Saul (I)

Biographies:
(American graphic designer, 1920-1996) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American artist, 1920-) ..... [WCP]
(American artist, b.1920) ..... [WCI]
(American artist, born 1920) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(American designer, 1920-1996) ..... [AVERY]
(American artist, 1920-1996) ..... [MoMA]
(American designer, 1920-1996) ..... [IMJ]
(American photographer, 1920-) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
בס, סול ........ [IMJ]
..............  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
Bass, Saul ........ [AVERY Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred, WCI Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
......................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
......................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
......................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
......................  Friedl, Typography (1998) 106
......................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
......................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 4896
......................  Witt Library, Authority files
Saul Bass ........ [MoMA, VP]
....................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ........ [AVERY, Gallery Systems, IMJ, MoMA, RKD, VP, WCI, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Austrian Dictionary of Biography [online] (2006-)
....................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
....................  Design Museum [online] (2004) accessed 9 December 2004
....................  Friedl, Typography (1998) 106
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n78011471
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n78011471
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 4896
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q536884
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, VP, WL-Courtauld]
.......... Austrian Dictionary of Biography [online] (2006-)
.......... Design Museum [online] (2004) accessed 9 December 2004
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