Herbert Bayer / 'The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.'--Theodore Roosevelt. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man. / 1959

Herbert Bayer
'The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.'--Theodore Roosevelt. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
1959
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Creator Name: Bayer, Herbert
Creator Nationality: North American; American
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 1900 Austria-1985 USA
Biography: Came to U.S. in 1938. Became a U.S. citizen in 1944.
Creator Name-CRT: Herbert Bayer
Title: 'The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.'--Theodore Roosevelt. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
Title Type: Title
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1959
Creation End Date: 1959
Creation Date: 1959
Object Type: Mixed Media
Materials and Techniques: photomontage, paper collage, watercolor and gouache on paperboard
Dimensions: sheet: 16 1/16 x 13 3/8 in. (40.7 x 33.9 cm.)
Inscriptions: lower right in gouache: bAYErupper center in colored ballpoint pen and ink: SILVERPRINT/"upper right in pencil: 930upper right in ballpoint pen and ink: 4" white lines(written sideways)center right in colored ballpoint pen and ink: 11 7/16back lowerleft to lower center in colored pencil: N13030
AMICA Contributor: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Owner Location: Washington, DC, USA
ID Number: 1984.124.24
Credit Line: Gift of Container Corporation of America
Copyright: ? Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Rights: http://www.arsny.com
AMICA ID: SAAM.1984.124.24
AMICA Library Year: 1998
Media Metadata Rights: Courtesy of Smithsonian American Art Museum

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