E. McKnight Kauffer

E. McKnight Kauffer
The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy, Kingsway Theatre
1914
lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Journey of the Magi
(illustration to poem by T.S. Eliot)
1927
pochoir
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

E. McKnight Kauffer
A Song for Simeon
(illustration to poem by T.S. Eliot)
1928
pochoir
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

E. McKnight Kauffer
BBC Handbook
1928
lithograph (book cover)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Illustration for Robinson Crusoe
1929
pochoir
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Illustration for Robinson Crusoe
1929
pochoir
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Illustration for Robinson Crusoe
1929
pochoir
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Illustration for Robinson Crusoe
1929
pochoir
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Triumphal March by T.S. Eliot
(cover of Curwen Press prospectus)
1931
lithograph and letterpress
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Posters by E. McKnight Kauffer - Museum of Modern Art
1937
lithograph (pamphlet cover)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Journey into Fear
1940
lithograph (study for dust-jacket)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Classical Head
ca. 1940-45
gouache on paper (study for dust-jacket)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Egyptian Servant Statues
1948
lithograph (proof for dust-jacket)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner
1948
gouache on paper (study for dust-jacket)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Ulysses by James Joyce
1949
lithograph (dust-jacket)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
The Dream of Poliphilo
1950
lithograph (proof for dust-jacket)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
1952
lithograph (dust-jacket)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

from On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

The Oracles are dumm,
No voice or hideous humm 
    Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving.
Apollo from his shrine
Can no more divine,    
    With hollow shreik the steep of Delphos leaving.
No nightly trance, or breathed spell,
Inspires the pale-eyed Priest from the prophetic cell.

– Prudentius (AD 348-410), as adapted and translated by John Milton (1629)