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1938

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1946

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  • We acquired this object.

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Print, Iconoscope Camera Tube, Page 56 from Fortune

This is a Print. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and made for (as the client) Fortune. It is dated ca. 1939 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph 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.

Its dimensions are

36.1 × 29.2 cm (14 3/16 × 11 1/2 in.)

It is signed

Printed in grey ink, lower left: herbert bayer 39

Cite this object as

Print, Iconoscope Camera Tube, Page 56 from Fortune; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Client: Fortune; offset lithograph on paper; 36.1 × 29.2 cm (14 3/16 × 11 1/2 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-363

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