Design for "Spring in the Country"
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Object Details
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Client
- London Passenger Transport Board, London, England
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design for a "Spring in the Country" Poster for the London Transport. At center, three butterflies on top of one another. The largest, at bottom, is brown and black, the center is yellow and white, and the top-most is in white outline on a blue ground. At top, in salmon and pink lettering: SPRING; below, in brown: IN THE COUNTRY. Photograph, lower right of a view toward woods from the corner of a field.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- ca. 1936
- Accession Number
- 1963-39-513
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Brush and gouache, collaged photograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.2 × 18.9 cm (11 7/8 × 7 7/16 in.)
- made in
- London, England, United Kingdom
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1963-39-513
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4e367e957-39e9-4e90-a833-ed42a8df8345
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