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Poster, American Airlines to Paris
This is a Poster. It was designed by E. McKnight Kauffer and made for (as the client) American Airlines. It is dated 1950 and we acquired it in 1963. Its medium is lithograph. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
In the late 1940s, Kauffer and Bernard Waldman set out west on research trips for a series of American Airlines posters. These adventures resulted in one of the most successful campaigns of Kauffer’s career. The subject of flight had long brought out the best in Kauffer. A painting of Flight, the iconic poster that had kick-started his career, hung in his studio until his death. As the writer Arnold Bennett had described him years before, Kauffer was “as a bird, forever in flight, forever searching for a place to come to rest.”
This object was
donated by
Mrs. Edward McKnight Kauffer.
It is credited Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- Sidewall, Views of Paris
- screen-printed paper.
- Gift of Harvey Smith.
- 1950-126-4-a,b
- Poster, American Airlines to California
- lithograph.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-131
- Print, American Airlines
- offset lithograph on paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-164-a
Our curators have highlighted 2 objects that are related to this one.
- Drawing, Design for "Off to Europe"
- brush and gouache on tracing paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-163
- Drawing, Design for "Washington"
- brush and gouache on paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-160
Its dimensions are
101.6 × 76.2 cm (40 × 30 in.)
It is signed
Printed in script in light blue ink, lower right: E. McKnight Kauffer
It is inscribed
Printed in black ink, lower left: LITHO IN U. S. A.
Cite this object as
Poster, American Airlines to Paris; Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, active England, 1890–1954); Client: American Airlines (United States); USA; lithograph; 101.6 × 76.2 cm (40 × 30 in.); Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer; 1963-39-141
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer.
