Object Details
- Designer
- Herbert Bayer, (American, born Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985)
- Client
- National Ski Association of America, Denver, Colorado, USA
- Description
- Postcard for 1950 World Ski Championships, National Ski Association of America. Downhill skier at center left in red and black with blue and black lines extending upwards, suggesting speed. Image of snowy white and blue mountain behind. Printed in black, red, and blue along the top right and upper right edge: 1950 WORLD SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS U.S.A.; in red, blue, and grey, lower portion: FIS LAKE PLACID / NEW YORK / NORDIC EVENTS / JAN. 30–FEB. 5 / ASPEN / COLORADO / ALPINE EVENTS / FEB. 13–18. Verso has "Post Card" printed in block letters in the center, a vertical line down the center, and a place for a stamp on the right printed in black.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors
- 1949
- Accession Number
- 2016-54-427
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Postcard
- Type
- Postcard
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on cream cardstock
- Dimensions
- 17.8 × 12.5 cm (7 × 4 15/16 in.)
- made in
- Aspen, CO, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_2016-54-427
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq46fdc715e-3e38-4206-bc69-40a436dc4a9d
