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Drawing, Product Label for Pears, Swift and Co.
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Henry Dreyfuss. It is dated January 31, 1931 and we acquired it in 1973. Its medium is brush and gouache, graphite on heavy paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
It is credited Gift of University of California, Los Angeles.
- 1A Gift Kodak Camera And Box
- leather-covered metal, chrome-plated and enameled metal, glass (camera);....
- Gift of George R. Kravis II.
- 2015-41-2-a,b
![A vertical cream gouache postcard for a Bauhaus exhibition in Weimar in 1923, with multiple geometric shapes in grey, green and black. In the upper left corner is a small grey vertical rectangle next to a small black square, beside this, stretching towards the right, is a large grey rectangle with black capitalised German text inside which reads [STAATLICHE BAUHAUS], meaning [State Bauhaus] with the words IN WEIMAR underneath written in white capitals inside a black rectangle. Below and to the right of this the words [eine macht 1ste], meaning [makes a first] are written in lowercase grey and black inside a thin-lined grid. At the bottom left, inside a large green vertical rectangle that stretches most of the bottom length, the word [AUSSTELLUNG], meaning [Exhibition] is written in capitalised black German. Above the letters AUSS is a large black square with a smaller white square outlined with a green border floating above its upper left corner. Above the the letters TELLUNG are two green vertical rectangles, beside this in the bottom right corner the German words [JULI, AUG. SEPT 1923], meaning [July, August, September 1923] are written in green capital letters with each letter inside a black square, forming a grid of sixteen squares.](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/358845_3c08b3898c76e81d_n.jpg "Design For Postcard, Das Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar Macht Eine 1ste Ausstellung (State Bauhaus in Weimar Makes a First Exhibition), 1923")
- Design For Postcard, Das Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar Macht Eine 1ste...
- gouache, ink, pencil.
- Collection of Merrill C. Berman.
- 15.2019.9
Its dimensions are
11 x 33 cm (4 5/16 in. x 13 in.)
Cite this object as
Drawing, Product Label for Pears, Swift and Co.; Designed by Henry Dreyfuss (American, 1904–1972); USA; brush and gouache, graphite on heavy paper; 11 x 33 cm (4 5/16 in. x 13 in.); Gift of University of California, Los Angeles; 1973-15-87
