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1928

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Program, 12,000, The Gate Theatre Studio

This is a Program. It was designed by E. McKnight Kauffer and published by The Gate Theatre Studio and printed by Euston Press.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Brian Webb as part of Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer.

It is dated 1928. Its medium is letterpress. It is a part of the Exhibitions department.

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Kauffer was involved with many theatrical organizations ranging from the experimental to the mainstream. He designed logos and programs for many of them. When Sidney Bernstein (1899–1993), a cofounder of the Film Society, opened the new Phoenix Theatre, Kauffer produced a logo featuring an elegant phoenix, a mythological bird rising from the flames.

It is credited Private collection, London.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 28 × 19 cm (11 in. × 7 1/2 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer.

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