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1944

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2016

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Print, The World Air Currents, Pages 47–48, Skyways

This is a Print. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and published by Henry Publishing Company and made for (as the client) Skyways. It is dated February 1944 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

28.7 × 21.3 cm (11 5/16 × 8 3/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Printed in black ink, lower left: FEBRUARY 1944; lower right: 47; verso, lower left: 48; lower right: SKYWAYS

Cite this object as

Print, The World Air Currents, Pages 47–48, Skyways; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Published by Henry Publishing Company; Client: Skyways; offset lithograph on paper; 28.7 × 21.3 cm (11 5/16 × 8 3/8 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-367

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