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1937

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1947

  • Work on this object ended.

2016

  • We acquired this object.

2019

2024

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Print, Presentation Board with Airplane Designs

This is a Print. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and made for (as the client) General Electric Company. It is dated ca. 1942 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on paper, mounted to black cardstock paper, with glassine attached. 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

37.6 × 26.4 cm (14 13/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

Cite this object as

Print, Presentation Board with Airplane Designs; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Client: General Electric Company; offset lithograph on paper, mounted to black cardstock paper, with glassine attached; 37.6 × 26.4 cm (14 13/16 × 10 3/8 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-277

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