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Poster, Vigil, The Pure Silk
This is a Poster. It was designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer and E. McKnight Kauffer and printed by Dangerfield Printing Company Ltd. and made for (as the client) Vigil Silk. It is dated 1919 and we acquired it in 1963. Its medium is lithograph. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
The textile company Vigil Silks was owned by Alec G. Walker, an art collector who was an enthusiastic champion of vorticism. Kauffer’s design of diagonally juxtaposed planes of stripes and grids was based on patterned textile swatches from the company. But the imagery echoes the vorticist abstractions of Edward Wadsworth. The poster raised controversy—how could an abstract image sell silk? Evidently it did just that and Walker continued to hire Kauffer to design for Vigil
This object was
donated by
Mrs. Edward McKnight Kauffer.
It is credited Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- Mabushi (Silk Cocoon Crate)
- wood, metal, paperboard, plastic.
- Courtesy of Matsuoka Co. Ltd..
- 89.2015.1
- Poster, Group X, Mansard Gallery
- lithograph.
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the designer, 1939.
- 95.2019.4
- Poster, Summer Sale at Derry & Toms
- lithograph.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-16
Our curators have highlighted 1 object that are related to this one.
- Poster, London Museum of Practical Geology
- lithograph.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-19
Its dimensions are
91.4 × 60.6 cm (36 in. × 23 7/8 in.)
It is signed
Printed in script, in black ink outline, center right: E. Mc.K Kauffer 1919.
It is inscribed
Printed in black ink, lower left: THE DANGERFIELD PRINTING CO. LTD. LONDON.
Cite this object as
Poster, Vigil, The Pure Silk; Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, active England, 1890–1954); Printed by Dangerfield Printing Company Ltd.; Client: Vigil Silk; USA; lithograph; 91.4 × 60.6 cm (36 in. × 23 7/8 in.); Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer; 1963-39-18
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer.
