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Print, The Industry That Thrives on Itself

This is a Print. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and made for (as the client) Container Corporation of America. It is dated 1939 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

33.3 × 25.6 cm (13 1/8 × 10 1/16 in.)

It is signed

Printed in grey ink, diagonally, lower right: herbert bayer 39

It is inscribed

Printed in black ink, along the bottom: No 13—1939—8 7-8 x 11 1-4 – Fortune –July—N.W. Ayer & Son Inc. 12176

Cite this object as

Print, The Industry That Thrives on Itself; 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; 33.3 × 25.6 cm (13 1/8 × 10 1/16 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-30

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