Wednesday 22 November 2023

Edward McKnight Kauffer - part 3

1927 Edward McKnight Kauffer by Howard Coster
© National Portrait Gallery, London

Hailed in his lifetime as “the poster king,” E. McKnight Kauffer (American, 1890–1954) believed that the street was an art gallery for the people. While living in England between 1914 and 1940, Kauffer produced radical posters for advertising that introduced modernism to the public. He experimented in provocative ways with line, form, space, and colour to promote services and products. He did not limit himself to posters, and designed a remarkable range of book covers, rugs, theatrical productions, and more, continuing his work in New York from 1940 until his death.

For more biographical notes see part 1, and for earlier works, see parts 1 & 2 also.

This is part 3 of a 6-part series on the works of E. McKnight Kauffer:

1924 Hadley Wood by Tram
colour lithograph poster for Underground Electric Railways Co., London 76.2 x 51.3 cm

1924 Imperial War Museum The Vindictive Howitzer
colour lithograph poster

1924 Near Waltham Cross by Tram
colour lithograph poster 76.2 x 50.6 cm

1924 Spring Cleaning. Eastman's The London Dyers & Cleaners for 120 Years.
colour lithograph poster 58.4 x 41.9 cm

1924 The Colne River at Uxbridge by Tram
colour lithograph poster for Underground Electric Railways Company of London 74.4 x 50.3 cm

1924 Twickenham by Tram
colour lithograph poster 76.2 x 50.4 cm

1924 Winter Sales Are Best Reached by Underground
colour lithograph poster 103.5 x 63.5 cm
MoMA, New York

1925 The Labour Woman
colour lithograph poster 75.6 x 50.8 cm
MoMA, New York

1925 England to India, A World Record in a Wolseley
colour lithograph poster 100.3 x 62.9 cm

1925 Spring Cleaning & Dyeing, Eastman & Son
colour lithograph poster 56.5 x 41.6 cm

1925 Summertime in the Country
design for poster
pencil and gouache on paper, mounted on board
35 x 41.4 cm cm
© Victoria & Albert Museum, London

1925 Summertime Pleasures by Underground
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 61.9 cm

1925 Summertime Pleasures by Underground
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 62.9 cm

1925 The Indian Museum, Book to South Kensington
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum

1925 The London Group R.W.S. Galleries
two-colour lithograph poster 76.2 x 49.8 cm


1925 Whitsuntide in the Country
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 127 cm

1925 Whitsuntide Pleasures by Underground
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1925 Whitsuntide Pleasures by Underground
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1926 Bananas (for The Empire Marketing Board)
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 152.4 cm
MoMA, New York

1926 Eastman and Son, Since 1802
colour lithograph poster 57.2 x 41.9 cm
MoMA, New York

1926 Metropolis
poster design for the film Metropolis by Fritz Lang
gouache on paper 74.9 x 43.2 cm
MoMA, New York

1926 Socrates at the British Museum, Underground
 colour lithograph poster 98 x 60.4 cm

1926 The Flea at the Natural History Museum, South Kensington by Underground
colour lithograph poster 100 x 63 cm

1926 The Lodger
tempera on paper 74.3 x 55.2 cm
MoMA, New York

1927 Cocoa Pods
design for a poster
tempera original 76.2 x 114.3 cm

1927 Eastman and Son, The London Dyers and Cleaners
colour lithograph poster 57 x 41.8 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

1927 from Winters Gloom to Summers Joy
colour lithograph poster 102.3 x 63.7 cm

1927 From Winters Gloom to Summers Joy
original artwork for the above poster

1928 Chrysler Prices Are Down (Chrysler 72)
colour lithograph poster 74.6 x 50.8 cm
MoMA, New York

1929 Carpet produced by The Wilton Royal Carpet Factory
213.3 x 119.8 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1929 Carpet for Wilton Royal Carpet Factory Ltd.
wool and jute 137 x 212 (Irregular)
©Victoria & Albert Museum, London

1929 Cheap Return Tickets from this Underground Station
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum

1929 Cover for the BBC Handbook
colour process engraving 28 x 24.8 cm

1929 Exhibition, Native Art from British Columbia, Imperial Institute
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.2 cm
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum,
 Washington, DC

1929 Flowers of the Riverside
colour lithograph London Transport poster

1929 Giants in the Earth by O.E. Rölvaag
book cover design

1929 International Aero Exhibition, Shell
colour lithograph poster 71.1 x 109.4 cm


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