A vertical print of a colorful and abstract illustration of diagram identified as 'BIOLOGY OF C.S.C.' in white sans serif text on the center top edge. On the bottom left side, a dark green convex mountain-shaped chart labeled in black text 'BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES' stretches upwards into three branches and extends into organic shape starburst of yellow, light green, and light blue at to the top of the image. Similarly, on the bottom right side, a dark purple dome shape labeled 'SYNTHETIC PROCESSES' is affix at the top to three connecting long vertical pipes, each topped with circular shapes of blue, pink, orange, red with smaller tube and stem-like protrusions. Black and white text mark the various parts of the charts indicating the stage of production and chemical reactions such as: butyl acetate, ethyl alcohol, acetone, nitroparaffins, corn oil, and carbon dioxide.

Object Timeline

1944	Work on this object began.
2016	We acquired this object.
2019	We photographed this object. We photographed this object. We exhibited this object.
2024	You found it!

Print, Biology of C.S.C., Page 134 from Fortune

This is a Print. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and made for (as the client) Fortune. It is dated October 1944 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is gravure print on 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.

Drawing, Study of Bone Sections
pen and black ink, brush and gouache on off-white heavy paper.
Gift of Grace Schulman.
1997-134-30

Drawing, Study of an Abstract Composition with a Key

Drawing, Study of an Abstract Composition with a Key
brush and gouache on black paper.
Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
1963-39-852

A vertically rectangular wall sconce. The light source is transluscent through a wall of teardrop-shaped pieces of glass. Each piece of glass is lime green, the color strongest and richest at the base of the teardrop, getting lighter toward the top. Teardrops come off of the light in all directions and at all parts of the sconce, covering the majority of the surface. Only small spaces exist for the light to shine out of.

Wall Sconce (USA)
blown glass, metal.
Gift of Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel.
2007-31-1

Its dimensions are

32.8 × 26.2 cm (12 15/16 × 10 5/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and black ink, verso, upper right: Fortune October 1944; Printed in black ink, verso, upper right: 133

Cite this object as

Print, Biology of C.S.C., Page 134 from Fortune; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Client: Fortune; gravure print on paper; 32.8 × 26.2 cm (12 15/16 × 10 5/16 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-362

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

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2FYuJi/
Accession Number 2016-54-362
Object ID 1108723029