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Print, Flight
This is a Print. It was designed by E. McKnight Kauffer. It is dated 1916. Its medium is woodcut. It is a part of the department.
Kauffer began his first experiments with vorticism in printmaking. In Housetops and Flight, he turned his subjects into geometric forms, using the balance between black and white to flatten the picture plane and convey a sense of motion. In preparation for Flight, Kauffer described carefully and obsessively observing birds in the sky. But he was also looking to 19th-century Japanese prints, and likely drew inspiration from the print reproduced below.
It is credited Private Collection.
- Poster, Soaring to Success! Daily Herald-the Early Bird
- lithograph.
- Courtesy of William W. Crouse.
- 85.2019.1
- Drawing, Study for Imperial Airways Advertisement
- graphite, brush and black gouache on graph paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-901
- Drawing, Study for "Quickest Way by Air Mail"
- pen and black ink, brush and black ink and white gouache, graphite on heavy....
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-900
Our curators have highlighted 2 objects that are related to this one.
- Drawing, Study for "Quickest Way by Air Mail"
- brush and blue and black gouache, graphite on paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-899
- Drawing, Study for "Quickest Way by Air Mail"
- brush and silver oil and blue gouache, graphite on heavy cream paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-898
Its dimensions are
H x W: 13.7 × 22.9 cm (5 3/8 in. × 9 in.) Frame H x W x D: 40.6 × 48.3 × 2.5 cm (16 × 19 × 1 in.)
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer.
