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1945

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Drawing, Design for a Magazine Cover with Flowers

This is a Drawing. It was designed by E. McKnight Kauffer and made for (as the client) Brighton Warp and Weft. It is dated 1945 and we acquired it in 1997. Its medium is brush and gouache, graphite on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Grace Schulman. It is credited Gift of Grace Schulman.

Its dimensions are

24.7 × 19.1 cm (9 3/4 × 7 1/2 in.)

It is signed

Signed in pen and blue ink, lower right: E. McKnight Kauffer

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Magazine Cover with Flowers; Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, active England, 1890–1954); Client: Brighton Warp and Weft; England; brush and gouache, graphite on paper; 24.7 × 19.1 cm (9 3/4 × 7 1/2 in.); Gift of Grace Schulman; 1997-134-16

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