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1943

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2016

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Print, "How Do You Measure a Year?" Mutual Advertisement

This is a Print. It was designed by Herbert Bayer. It is dated 1943 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on glossy white paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors.

Its dimensions are

29.1 × 21.2 cm (11 7/16 × 8 3/8 in.)

Cite this object as

Print, "How Do You Measure a Year?" Mutual Advertisement; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); offset lithograph on glossy white paper; 29.1 × 21.2 cm (11 7/16 × 8 3/8 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-196

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