Third National Bank, Dayton, Ohio, 1979 Dayton Museum of Fine Arts, Dayton, Ohio, 1991 Carl Solway, Cincinatti, Ohio, 1997 Sebastian+Barquet, New York, 2008 Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
'Spaceship Earth,' Third National Bank, Dayton, Ohio, 1979
Literature
Michael John Gorman, Buckminster Fuller: Designing For Mobility, Milan, 2005, pp. 113 Hsiao-Yun and Roberto G. Trujillo, New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller, California, 2009, p. 121
Catalogue Essay
The present design for a world map is the first in the history of cartography to show the whole surface of the Earth with no visible distortion of the relative size and shape of the land and sea areas and no breaks in the continental contours. One of twenty-eight patents granted to Fuller during his career, the patent for the Dymaxion Map was filed February 25, 1944 and issued January 29, 1946 under the patent number 2,393,676.