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Greeting Card, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Herbert Bayer

This is a Greeting card. It was designed by Herbert Bayer. It is dated 1940 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on gold 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

16.2 × 24.2 cm (6 3/8 × 9 1/2 in.) Open: 32.4 × 24.2 cm (12 3/4 × 9 1/2 in.)

It is signed

Inscribed in graphite, verso, lower left corner: bayer 1940

Cite this object as

Greeting Card, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Herbert Bayer; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); offset lithograph on gold paper; 16.2 × 24.2 cm (6 3/8 × 9 1/2 in.) Open: 32.4 × 24.2 cm (12 3/4 × 9 1/2 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-453

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