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Magazine Cover, Print, Vol. 16, No. 3

This is a Magazine Cover. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and published by Print and made for (as the client) Print. It is dated May–June 1962 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

30.3 × 22.9 cm (11 15/16 × 9 in.)

It is signed

Printed vertically in black ink, lower right: bayer

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and pink ink, verso, lower left: U.S. Master Samples – Box 5

Cite this object as

Magazine Cover, Print, Vol. 16, No. 3; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Published by Print; offset lithograph on glossy white paper; 30.3 × 22.9 cm (11 15/16 × 9 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-342

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