Herbert Bayer, (American, born Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985) Search this
Featured Artist:
Herbert Bayer, (American, born Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985) Search this
Subject:
Thomas Paine, American, b. England, 1737–1809 Search this
Client:
Container Corporation of America, Chicago, Illinois, USA Search this
Medium:
Offset lithograph on glossy white paper
Dimensions:
35.6 × 28.2 cm (14 × 11 1/8 in.)
Type:
graphic design
Print
Object Name:
Print
Made in:
Aspen, CO, USA
Date:
1951
Description:
Advertisement for Container Corporation of America featuring artwork by Herbert Bayer. Design contains a light blue background and black printed text. Some of the text is on top of colored geometric forms (in red, white, black, orange, and yellow). Printed in black ink, from top to bottom: Thomas Paine on equality of rights / Rights are not gifts from one man to another, / nor from one class of men to another. . . . / It is impossible to discover any origin of rights / otherwise than in the origin of man; / it consequently follows that rights appertain to man / in right of his existence, and must therefore / be equal to every man. / The principle of an equality / of rights is clear simple. / Every man can understand it, and it is by / understanding his rights that he learns his duties; / for where the rights of men are equal, every man must / finally see the necessity of protecting the rights of others / as the most effectual security for his own. / (On First Principles of Government, 1795) / Great Ideas of Western Man . . . ONE OF A SERIES / [CCA logo] Container Corporation of America / Artist: herbert bayer. A black and white photographic reproduction of Thomas Paine is in the lower left corner.
Credit Line:
Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors
