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1954

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2016

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Magazine Cover, Perspectives USA, No. 6

This is a Magazine Cover. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and published by Intercultural Publications and made for (as the client) Perspectives USA. It is dated Winter 1954 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on 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

23.6 × 17 cm (9 5/16 × 6 11/16 in.)

Cite this object as

Magazine Cover, Perspectives USA, No. 6; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Published by Intercultural Publications; Client: Perspectives USA; offset lithograph on paper; 23.6 × 17 cm (9 5/16 × 6 11/16 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-340

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