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1947

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2016

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2019

2025

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Greeting Card, Cloud Shadows

This is a Greeting card. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and made for (as the client) Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. It is dated 1947 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on off-white cardstock. 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

10.4 × 13.5 cm (4 1/8 × 5 5/16 in.) Open: 20.8 × 13.5 cm (8 3/16 × 5 5/16 in.)

Cite this object as

Greeting Card, Cloud Shadows; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Client: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; offset lithograph on off-white cardstock; 10.4 × 13.5 cm (4 1/8 × 5 5/16 in.) Open: 20.8 × 13.5 cm (8 3/16 × 5 5/16 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-468

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