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Print, Great Ideas of Western Man Featuring Aesop

This is a Print. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and made for (as the client) Container Corporation of America. It is dated 1962 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on glossy white 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

35.9 × 28.9 cm (14 1/8 × 11 3/8 in.)

It is signed

Printed in white ink, lower left: artist: herbert bayer; grey ink, lower right corner: bayer

It is inscribed

Printed in white ink, vertically, upper left: ©CCA 1962

Cite this object as

Print, Great Ideas of Western Man Featuring Aesop; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Client: Container Corporation of America (United States); offset lithograph on glossy white paper; 35.9 × 28.9 cm (14 1/8 × 11 3/8 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-28

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