THE YEAR’S WORK
Annual Report to The Board of Trustees and the
Corporate Members of The Museum of Modern Art,
for the Year June 30, 1939 – July 1, 1940
Stephen C. Clark [foreword]: THE YEAR’S WORK. New York: Museum of Modern Art, January 1941. Slim quarto. Original edition [12,000 copies]. Printed stapled wrappers. 36 pp. 15 black and white photographs. 8 diagrams. Wrappers sunned and worn with a partial coffee ring. Textblock thumbed. A nearly very good copy.
7.5 x 10 softcover “Annual Report to The Board of Trustees and the Corporate Members of The Museum of Modern Art, for the Year June 30, 1939 – July 1, 1940.” Excellent use of information graphic charts utilizing Rudolf Modley’s Pictorial Statistics, the American version of Otto Neurath’s Isotypes.
Features the classic Infographic: Avergae Day at the Museum with an excellent use of information graphic charts utilizing Rudolf Modley’s Pictorial Statistics, the American version of Otto Neurath’s Isotypes. Modley was a student of Otto Neurath who brought the Isotype theories to the US. He founded the Pictograph Corporation in 1934 after working for the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.
Also includes photographhs of the Houses and Housing and Useful Objects Under Ten Dollars exhibitions.