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Booklet, Convocation Program Honoring Martha Graham, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, Aspen, CO

This is a Booklet. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and made for (as the client) Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. It is dated 1965 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on paper, folded. 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

22.8 × 10.1 cm (9 × 4 in.) Open: 22.8 × 20.3 cm (9 × 8 in.)

It is inscribed

Printed in gold, right interior page, upper center: Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies / Convocation Honoring / MARTHA GRAHAM / Recipient of the Aspen Award in the Humanities / July 30, 1965 / The Amphitheater, Aspen, Colorado; program listed in gold below

Cite this object as

Booklet, Convocation Program Honoring Martha Graham, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, Aspen, CO; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Client: Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies; offset lithograph on paper, folded; 22.8 × 10.1 cm (9 × 4 in.) Open: 22.8 × 20.3 cm (9 × 8 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-447

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