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Print, Weakness Into Strength

This is a Print. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and made for (as the client) Container Corporation of America. It is dated ca. 1940 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on thick 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

35.3 × 27.8 cm (13 7/8 × 10 15/16 in.)

It is signed

Printed in grey ink, center right: herbert bayer

It is inscribed

Printed in black ink, center right: PLAYING CARDS OF 1870– / FROM THE MUSEUM OF U.S. / PLAYING CARD COMPANY ; Inscribed in pen and black ink, verso, upper left: BW5

Cite this object as

Print, Weakness Into Strength; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Client: Container Corporation of America (United States); offset lithograph on thick white paper; 35.3 × 27.8 cm (13 7/8 × 10 15/16 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-46

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