Object Details
- Designer
- Herbert Bayer, (American, born Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985)
- Featured Artist
- Herbert Bayer, (American, born Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985)
- Subject
- Abraham Lincoln, American, 1809–1865
- Client
- Container Corporation of America, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Description
- Advertisement for Container Corporation of America featuring artwork by Herbert Bayer. Design consists of a light blue geometric form, roughly oval shaped with pointed ends, at the top, with the following printed black text: Great Ideas of Western Man . . . ONE OF A SERIES. At center, a large black circle appears, with the following text printed in white at the bottom of the shape: I hold that while man exists it is his duty / to improve not only his own condition / but to assist in ameliorating mankind. / (Speech, Cincinnati, Feb. 12, 1861). The black circle and blue geometric form are shaded and not clearly defined around the edges. Printed in blue text, below the circle: ABRAHAM LINCOLN on man's responsibility. Design contains a thin, red, rectangular strip along the bottom containing text printed in black: CONTAINER CORPORATION OF AMERICA. The CCA logo is directly below.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors
- 1950–75
- Accession Number
- 2016-54-105
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright Notice
- © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Type
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on glossy white paper
- Dimensions
- 36.2 × 29.2 cm (14 1/4 × 11 1/2 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_2016-54-105
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4581177c5-5ab1-48c6-8d73-519dc5374592
