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Booklet, Aspen Institute Society of Fellows, The 1970s

This is a Booklet. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and made for (as the client) Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. It is dated 1971 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on white wove paper, folded and stapled. 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

21.5 × 21.7 cm (8 7/16 × 8 9/16 in.) Open: 21.5 × 43.4 cm (8 7/16 × 17 1/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Printed in white ink, interior of back cover: The cover illustration is a reproduction / of a design for a wall hanging created / for the Aspen Institute for Humanistic / Studies by Herbert Bayer, internation- / ally known artist and architect. A lim- / ited edition of 150, 16 x 16" original / silk screen prints, numbered and / signed by the artist, are available / upon request.

Cite this object as

Booklet, Aspen Institute Society of Fellows, The 1970s; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Client: Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies; offset lithograph on white wove paper, folded and stapled; 21.5 × 21.7 cm (8 7/16 × 8 9/16 in.) Open: 21.5 × 43.4 cm (8 7/16 × 17 1/16 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-554

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