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| 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:
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| 1924 Hadley Wood by Tram colour lithograph poster for Underground Electric Railways Co., London 76.2 x 51.3 cm |
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| 1924 Imperial War Museum The Vindictive Howitzer colour lithograph poster |
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| 1924 Near Waltham Cross by Tram colour lithograph poster 76.2 x 50.6 cm |
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| 1924 Spring Cleaning. Eastman's The London Dyers & Cleaners for 120 Years. colour lithograph poster 58.4 x 41.9 cm |
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| 1924 The Colne River at Uxbridge by Tram colour lithograph poster for Underground Electric Railways Company of London 74.4 x 50.3 cm |
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| 1924 Twickenham by Tram colour lithograph poster 76.2 x 50.4 cm |
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| 1924 Winter Sales Are Best Reached by Underground colour lithograph poster 103.5 x 63.5 cm MoMA, New York |
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| 1925 The Labour Woman colour lithograph poster 75.6 x 50.8 cm MoMA, New York |
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| 1925 England to India, A World Record in a Wolseley colour lithograph poster 100.3 x 62.9 cm |
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| 1925 Spring Cleaning & Dyeing, Eastman & Son colour lithograph poster 56.5 x 41.6 cm |
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| 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 |
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| 1925 Summertime Pleasures by Underground colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 61.9 cm |
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| 1925 Summertime Pleasures by Underground colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 62.9 cm |
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| 1925 The Indian Museum, Book to South Kensington colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum |
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| 1925 The London Group R.W.S. Galleries two-colour lithograph poster 76.2 x 49.8 cm |
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| 1925 Whitsuntide in the Country colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 127 cm |
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| 1925 Whitsuntide Pleasures by Underground colour lithograph poster for London Transport |
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| 1925 Whitsuntide Pleasures by Underground colour lithograph poster for London Transport |
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| 1926 Bananas (for The Empire Marketing Board) colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 152.4 cm MoMA, New York |
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| 1926 Eastman and Son, Since 1802 colour lithograph poster 57.2 x 41.9 cm MoMA, New York |
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| 1926 Metropolis poster design for the film Metropolis by Fritz Lang gouache on paper 74.9 x 43.2 cm MoMA, New York |
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| 1926 Socrates at the British Museum, Underground colour lithograph poster 98 x 60.4 cm |
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| 1926 The Flea at the Natural History Museum, South Kensington by Underground colour lithograph poster 100 x 63 cm |
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| 1926 The Lodger tempera on paper 74.3 x 55.2 cm MoMA, New York |
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| 1927 Cocoa Pods design for a poster tempera original 76.2 x 114.3 cm |
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| 1927 Eastman and Son, The London Dyers and Cleaners colour lithograph poster 57 x 41.8 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1927 from Winters Gloom to Summers Joy colour lithograph poster 102.3 x 63.7 cm |
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| 1927 From Winters Gloom to Summers Joy original artwork for the above poster |
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| 1928 Chrysler Prices Are Down (Chrysler 72) colour lithograph poster 74.6 x 50.8 cm MoMA, New York |
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| 1929 Carpet produced by The Wilton Royal Carpet Factory 213.3 x 119.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1929 Carpet for Wilton Royal Carpet Factory Ltd. wool and jute 137 x 212 (Irregular) ©Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| 1929 Cheap Return Tickets from this Underground Station colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm London Transport Museum |
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| 1929 Cover for the BBC Handbook colour process engraving 28 x 24.8 cm |
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| 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 |
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| 1929 Flowers of the Riverside colour lithograph London Transport poster |
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| 1929 Giants in the Earth by O.E. Rölvaag book cover design |
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| 1929 International Aero Exhibition, Shell colour lithograph poster 71.1 x 109.4 cm |
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