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Booklet, The Aspen Music Festival 1976

This is a Booklet. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and featuring artwork by Herbert Bayer and made for (as the client) The Aspen Music Festival. It is dated 1976 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on glossy 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

Recto: 27.9 × 21.6 cm (11 × 8 1/2 in.) Verso: 27.9 × 21.9 cm (11 × 8 5/8 in.) Open: 27.9 × 43.5 cm (11 × 17 1/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Printed in black, verso, lower left: The Aspen Music Festival 1976 / Gordon Hardy, Executive Vice President and Dean / Jorge Mester, Music Director / Box AA / Aspen, Colorado 81611 / cover: Herbert Bayer silkscreen 1975 / “Two Curves from Colored Progressions on Red” / 32" × 32" edition 50 / Herbert Bayer is represented / in Aspen by the Patricia Moore Gallery

Cite this object as

Booklet, The Aspen Music Festival 1976; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Client: The Aspen Music Festival; offset lithograph on glossy white cardstock; Recto: 27.9 × 21.6 cm (11 × 8 1/2 in.) Verso: 27.9 × 21.9 cm (11 × 8 5/8 in.) Open: 27.9 × 43.5 cm (11 × 17 1/8 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-472

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