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Drawing, Design for a Magazine Cover with Geometric Abstraction
This is a Drawing. It was designed by E. McKnight Kauffer and made for (as the client) Brighton Warp and Weft. It is dated ca. 1945 and we acquired it in 1997. Its medium is brush and gouache, graphite on board. 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.
- Canvas Brooch
- painted canvas on wood, applied tin, silver, iron.
- The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
- 2016-34-91
Its dimensions are
50.9 × 40.5 cm (20 1/16 × 15 15/16 in.)
It is signed
Signed in pen and black ink, lower right below image: Design by / E. McKnight Kauffer.
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite, at lower left corner margin: WARP & WEFT [upside down]
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for a Magazine Cover with Geometric Abstraction; Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, active England, 1890–1954); Client: Brighton Warp and Weft; England; brush and gouache, graphite on board; 50.9 × 40.5 cm (20 1/16 × 15 15/16 in.); Gift of Grace Schulman; 1997-134-7
