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Print, Great Ideas of Western Man Featuring Theodore Roosevelt

This is a Print. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and created by Herbert Bayer and subject: Theodore Roosevelt and made for (as the client) Container Corporation of America. It is dated 1958 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on 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.

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Its dimensions are

34.6 × 27.6 cm (13 5/8 × 10 7/8 in.)

It is signed

Printed in black ink, vertically, lower right: ARTIST: HERBERT BAYER

It is inscribed

Printed in black ink, along lower margin: GI–49-22-1958–1 page, 4 colors, bleed–Time (8 1-2 × 11 7-16), Feb. 15; Newsweek (8 7-16 × 11 3-8), Feb. 22–N.W. Ayer & Son, Inc.

Cite this object as

Print, Great Ideas of Western Man Featuring Theodore Roosevelt; Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Subject: Theodore Roosevelt (American, 1858–1919); Client: Container Corporation of America (United States); offset lithograph on white paper; 34.6 × 27.6 cm (13 5/8 × 10 7/8 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-14

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master.

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