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1964

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2016

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2025

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Booklet, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies Annual Report

This is a Booklet. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and photographed by Ferenc Berko and featuring artwork by Ben Shahn and made for (as the client) Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. It is dated 1964 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on white and blue wove paper, folded and stapled. 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

28 × 21.7 cm (11 × 8 9/16 in.) Open: 28 × 43.2 cm (11 × 17 in.)

It is signed

Printed in black ink, lower right: Ben Shahn; inside of back cover: Photo credits for Berko, Robert Bishop, Myron Wood, and Margaret Durrance

Cite this object as

Booklet, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies Annual Report; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Photographed by Ferenc Berko (American, b. Hungary, 1916–2000); Featuring artwork by Ben Shahn (Lithuanian, active USA, 1898–1969); Client: Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies; offset lithograph on white and blue wove paper, folded and stapled; 28 × 21.7 cm (11 × 8 9/16 in.) Open: 28 × 43.2 cm (11 × 17 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-522-1,2

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