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The New Bauhaus/School of Design/Institute of Design, Chicago and its Canadian Students C

Upper centre: Poster for the School of Design’s Two Summer Sessions at Chicago and Somonauk, Ill., June-August 1941; Photograph of the 1941 School of Design Summer School at Somonauk attended by Erma Suttcliffe. Suttcliffe is one of the women on the image; Poster for Gordon Webber’s Children’s Art Classes at the School of Design, 1941 (all three are digital exhibition prints); Gordon Webber and Nathan Lerner, Light Display, 1940 (digital exhibition print). Upper right: Canadian Art (Winter 1948), open to a review by Gordon Webber of Moholy-Nagy’s book Vision in Motion. Lower centre: Canadian Art (Summer 1952), open to show a reproduction of Gordon Webber’s coloured ink drawing Space Area no. 9; Canadian Art (Winter 1954), open to show a reproduction of Gordon Webber’s painting Abstract Composition; Printing Review, no. 33 (1940), open to an interview with László Moholy-Nagy by Edward Booth on “What the New Typography Aims At" (All items are from a private collection)