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Booklet Cover, Plants and Products

This is a Booklet cover. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and made for (as the client) Container Corporation of America. It is dated 1948 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on glossy 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.

Its dimensions are

35.6 × 28.1 cm (14 × 11 1/16 in.) Open: 35.6 × 56.1 cm (14 × 22 1/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and blue ink, upper left, left interior page: cover for booklet 1948

Cite this object as

Booklet Cover, Plants and Products; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Client: Container Corporation of America (United States); offset lithograph on glossy thick white paper; 35.6 × 28.1 cm (14 × 11 1/16 in.) Open: 35.6 × 56.1 cm (14 × 22 1/16 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-40

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