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1939

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2016

  • We acquired this object.

2019

2025

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Print, Brain Diagram (Consciousness, Sensation, Perception, Voluntary Action)

This is a Print. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and made for (as the client) Life Magazine. It is dated 1939 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is gravure print 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

35.1 × 26.6 cm (13 13/16 × 10 1/2 in.)

It is signed

Signed in grey ink, upper right: herbert bayer 39

Cite this object as

Print, Brain Diagram (Consciousness, Sensation, Perception, Voluntary Action); Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Client: Life Magazine; gravure print on paper; 35.1 × 26.6 cm (13 13/16 × 10 1/2 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-369

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