Artist:  Allan D'ARCANGELO (American, 1930 - 1998)

Year:  1975/76 for the American Bicentennial

Medium:  Original Mixed Media work in Color Lithograph with Screenprinting and Embossing

Signature:  Hand Signed by the Artist in Pencil, LR, as shown

Edition:  Limited Edition of 200 impressions; this one numbered "122/200" in pencil

Printer:  Styria Studio, features publishers' distinctive blind stamp

Publisher:  U.S. Bicentennial Commission, Mobile Oil, APC Editions, and Chermayeff & Geismar

Size: 30 x 22 inches; 76.2 × 55.9 cm (paper; printed to edges, the full sheet)

Notes:  This spectacular hand signed and numbered mixed media print by renowned American Pop Artist Allan D'Arcangelo, with embossing from the mid 1970s was created as part of a portfolio called "America: the Third Century", commissioned by Mobil Oil Corporation in which 13 artists were commissioned to create works celebrating America's bicentennial.  Other editions of this print are in the permanent collection of the Museum of American art and the US State Department's Art in Embassies Program.  The work depicts the great seal of of the United States, with a gorgeous embossed design and the text, Annuit Coeptis is the Latin motto suggested in 1782 by Charles Thomson, the Founding Father chosen by Continental Congress to come up with the final design for the Great Seal of the United States. (The embossing is equally impressive on the verso (back).