COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
SAAM.1984.124.24
AMICA Library Year:
1998
Object Type:
Mixed Media
Creator Name:
Bayer, Herbert
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 Date:
1959
Creation Start Date:
1959
Creation End Date:
1959
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.)
AMICA Contributor:
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Owner Location:
Washington, DC, USA
ID Number:
1984.124.24
Credit Line:
Gift of Container Corporation of America
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
Copyright:
? Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Rights:
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Image: Copyright Whitney Museum of American Art
Related Image Identifier Link:
SAAM.1984.124.24.tif
Initial Sort:
Bayer, Herbert
'The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, saf...
