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Drawing, Design for "Train Yourself to Better Work"
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer and made for (as the client) London Passenger Transport Board. It is dated ca. 1935 and we acquired it in 1963. Its medium is brush and gouache on off-white paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was
donated by
Mrs. Edward McKnight Kauffer.
It is credited Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- Protractor (USA)
- sheet steel.
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- plywood, plexiglass.
- Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, 2010.3095.071.
- 14.2012.67
- Print, Aim High!
- offset lithograph on glossy white paper.
- Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A.....
- 2016-54-55
Its dimensions are
31.7 × 20.8 cm (12 1/2 × 8 3/16 in.) (irregular)
It is signed
Signed in black gouache, lower center: E. McK K.
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for "Train Yourself to Better Work"; Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, active England, 1890–1954); Client: London Passenger Transport Board (England, GB, United Kingdom); USA; brush and gouache on off-white paper; 31.7 × 20.8 cm (12 1/2 × 8 3/16 in.) (irregular); Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer; 1963-39-507
