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Book Cover, Modern Art in Advertising: Designs for Container Corporation, Art Institute of Chicago

This is a Book cover. It was designed by Herbert Bayer. It is dated 1945 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on brown 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

23.5 × 17.8 cm (9 1/4 × 7 in.) Open: 23.5 × 35.6 cm (9 1/4 × 14 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and black ink, left interior page, upper left: catalogue cover 1945

Cite this object as

Book Cover, Modern Art in Advertising: Designs for Container Corporation, Art Institute of Chicago; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); offset lithograph on brown paper; 23.5 × 17.8 cm (9 1/4 × 7 in.) Open: 23.5 × 35.6 cm (9 1/4 × 14 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-192

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