E. McKnight Kauffer

E. McKnight Kauffer
The London Group Exhibition
1918
lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Exhibition of Modern Art - The London Group
1919
lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Victoria & Albert Museum, South Kensington
1921
lithograph
(poster for London Underground)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
London History at the London Museum
1922
lithograph
(poster for London Underground)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Socrates at the British Museum
1926
lithograph
(poster for London Underground)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Curtis Moffat Ltd.
1929
lithograph
(invitation to opening of gallery and design firm)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Costume Design for Caliban in The Tempest
ca. 1932
gouache on paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Bruguière - Kauffer
1933
lithograph
(invitation to exhibition with photographer Francis Bruguière)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Study for Exhibition Announcement
1934
gouache on paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Man Ray at Lund Humphries
1934
lithograph (exhibition poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Cambridge Exhibition - Fascism & War
1934
lithograph (flyer)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
News Chronicle Schools Exhibition
1937
lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Join the Diamond Jubilee - Metropolitan Museum of Art
1946
lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Costume Design for the ballet Checkmate
Royal Opera House, London
1947
gouache on paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Backdrop Design for ballet Checkmate
Royal Opera House, London
1947
gouache on paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous Photographer
Production of Checkmate at the Royal Opera House, London
(designed by E. McKnight Kauffer in 1947)
1982
C-print
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Figure carrying a Painting
before 1954
watercolor on paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

from A Funerall Hymne out of Prudentius

O God, the soules pure fi'ry Spring,
Who diff'rent natures wouldst combine:
That man whom thou to life didst bring,
By weakenesse may to death decline,
By thee they both are fram'd aright,
They by thy hand united be;
And while they joyne with growing might,
Both flesh and spirit live to thee:
But when division them recals,
They bend their course to sev'rall ends,
Into dry earth the body falls,
The fervent soule to heav'n ascends:
For all created things at length,
By slow corruption growing old,
Must needs forsake compacted strength,
And disagreeing webs unfold.

– Prudentius (AD 348-410), translated by Sir John Beaumont (before 1627)