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Poster, A Course of Lectures on Modern Tendencies in Art
This is a Poster. It was designed by E. McKnight Kauffer and made for (as the client) Arts League of Service. It is dated 1919 and we acquired it in 2021. Its medium is lithograph. It is a part of the department.
In 1919, Kauffer was a founding member of The Arts League of Service (ALS), an organization that increased appreciation of and access to modern art and culture. Kauffer designed the ALS emblem, a figure caught in stride between city and country, emphasizing the geographic reach of the group’s programming. Wyndham Lewis, poet T. S. Eliot, and dancer Margaret Morris were among the artists who participated through theatrical and dance performances, lecture series, a printed bulletin, and exhibitions.
This object was
transferred from
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum: Exhibitions.
It is credited Transfer from Exhibitions Department.
Its dimensions are
73.3 × 51.1 cm (28 7/8 × 20 1/8 in.)
It is inscribed
Printed in plate: The Arts League of Service/ A Course of Lectures on/ Modern Tendencies in Art/ at 8.45 p.m./ Central Buildings/ Westminster/ Wednesday, Oct. 22 “Painting” Wyndham Lewis/ Chairman: George Bernard Shaw/ Tuesday, Oct. 28 “Poetry” T.S. Eliot/ Chairman: Laurence Binyon/ Wednesday, Nov. 12 “Dancing” Margaret Morris/ Thursday, Nov. 27 “Music” Eugène Goossens/ Single Tickets, 5s. (Members, 50% reduction. Apply 1 Robert Street, Adelphi W.C.2 (Tel. No. Regent 779)
Cite this object as
Poster, A Course of Lectures on Modern Tendencies in Art; Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, active England, 1890–1954); Client: Arts League of Service; lithograph; 73.3 × 51.1 cm (28 7/8 × 20 1/8 in.); Transfer from Exhibitions Department; 2021-7-1
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer.
