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Booklet Cover, Cover, Electronics—A New Science for a New World
This is a Booklet cover. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and made for (as the client) General Electric Company. It is dated 1942 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on thick 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.
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- 2018-22-24
Its dimensions are
21.1 × 27.7 cm (8 5/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite, verso, upper left: H Bayer – 1942 / GE Booklet; printed in black ink, verso, lower left: Copyright, 1942, by General Electric Company
Cite this object as
Booklet Cover, Cover, Electronics—A New Science for a New World; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Client: General Electric Company; offset lithograph on thick white paper; 21.1 × 27.7 cm (8 5/16 × 10 7/8 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-270
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master.
