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Print, Fire Steals

This is a Print. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and made for (as the client) Container Corporation of America. It is dated 1942 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on 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

35.4 × 28.1 cm (13 15/16 × 11 1/16 in.)

It is signed

Printed in faint black ink, upper left: herbert bayer

Cite this object as

Print, Fire Steals; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Client: Container Corporation of America (United States); offset lithograph on white paper; 35.4 × 28.1 cm (13 15/16 × 11 1/16 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-52

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