Three Tulips, Advertisement for American Silk Mills
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Object Details
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Client
- American Silk Mills, Inc., USA
- Publisher
- The New York Times, New York, NY, USA, founded 1851
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Clipping of a magazine advertisement for American Silk Mills, clipped from a March 1943 issue of New York Magazine. Three tulips are shown blooming amidst barbed wire and bombed buildings silhouetted against a red and yellow background. Text printed below: With Victory, tulips will bloom again…the sun of freedom shine where / now is pagan darkness…tulips will bloom again. We pray that day be soon!
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- March 21, 1943
- Accession Number
- 1963-39-728
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- ephemera
- Object Name
- Type
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on newsprint
- Dimensions
- 37.7 × 27.5 cm (14 13/16 × 10 13/16 in.)
- made in
- New York, New York, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1963-39-728
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4d032bdfc-7ea7-49e7-affe-b9342ec30abc
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