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Envelope, Robert O. Anderson Aspen Award in the Humanities

This is a Envelope. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and made for (as the client) Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. It is dated 1963 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on light brown wove paper, 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 × 22.8 cm (9 × 9 in.)

Cite this object as

Envelope, Robert O. Anderson Aspen Award in the Humanities; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Client: Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies; offset lithograph on light brown wove paper, folded; 22.8 × 22.8 cm (9 × 9 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-551

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