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Booklet Cover, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center School, 1949–1950

This is a Booklet cover. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and made for (as the client) Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. It is dated 1949 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on light brown cardstock, folded. 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

22.8 × 15.2 cm (9 × 6 in.) Open: 22.8 × 30.5 cm (9 × 12 in.)

Cite this object as

Booklet Cover, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center School, 1949–1950; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Client: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; offset lithograph on light brown cardstock, folded; 22.8 × 15.2 cm (9 × 6 in.) Open: 22.8 × 30.5 cm (9 × 12 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-467

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