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1956

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2016

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2019

2024

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Book Cover, Beautyway: A Navaho Ceremonial

This is a Book cover. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and written by Maud Oakes and Father Berard Haile and published by Pantheon and edited by Leland C. Wyman. It is dated 1956 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on 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

26.4 × 44.7 cm (10 3/8 × 17 5/8 in.) Open: 26.4 × 71.2 cm (10 3/8 × 28 1/16 in.)

It is signed

Printed in blue ink, verso, left flap: Jacket design by Herbert Bayer

Cite this object as

Book Cover, Beautyway: A Navaho Ceremonial; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Written by Father Berard Haile (American, 1874–1961), Maud Oakes (American, 1903–1990); Published by Pantheon (United States); Edited by Leland C. Wyman (American, 1898–1988); offset lithograph on paper; 26.4 × 44.7 cm (10 3/8 × 17 5/8 in.) Open: 26.4 × 71.2 cm (10 3/8 × 28 1/16 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-218

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