PM: An Intimate Journal for Production Managers, Art Directors and their Associates, June-July 1938 [Bauhaus, Lester Beall]

PM: An Intimate Journal for Production Managers, Art Directors and their Associates, Vol. IV, No. 7, June–July, 1938. Edited by Robert L. Leslie and Percy Seitlin. PM Publishing Co., New York. 5.375 x  7.875, pp. 76. PM (later called A-D for art director) was America's leading trade journal exhibiting ambitious work and Modern sensibilities between 1934–42.

Cover design by Peter Piening, who arrived in New York City in 1934. His celebrated cover is proof of an original and inventive method of design expression; referencing Surrealist and Constructivist influences.

This notable issue includes a 32-page, two-color insert titled “The Bauhaus Tradition and the New Typography” by L. Sandusky. It was the first survey of Bauhaus thinking in an American periodical and featured the work of avant-gardes, recent émigrés and American Modernists all selected by Sandusky and Lester Beall, who designed the interior pages. The text is illustrated with black and white and red works by: Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitzky, Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Ilia Zdanevich, Karel Teige, Jan Tschichold, Paul Renner, Herbert Bayer, Peter Piening, Lester Beall and others.

A very good, original journal with considerable foxing and soiling to the white covers; more pronounced on the back. Interior pages are still bright and well preserved.