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Print, Weakness Into Strength, ca. 1940
This is a Print. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and made for (as the client) Container Corporation of America. It is dated ca. 1940 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on 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
35.3 × 27.8 cm (13 7/8 × 10 15/16 in.)
It is signed
Printed in grey ink, center right: herbert bayer
It is inscribed
Printed in black ink, center right: PLAYING CARDS OF 1870– / FROM THE MUSEUM OF U.S. / PLAYING CARD COMPANY ; Inscribed in pen and black ink, verso, upper left: BW5
Cite this object as
Print, Weakness Into Strength, ca. 1940; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Client: Container Corporation of America (United States); offset lithograph on thick white paper; 35.3 × 27.8 cm (13 7/8 × 10 15/16 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-46
