E. McKnight Kauffer

E. McKnight Kauffer
Burgundy Bottle
ca. 1933
lithograph (design for advertisement)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Rubicon Burgundy
1933
lithograph (advertising poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Eastman and Son Dyers & Cleaners
1926
lithograph (advertising poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Soaring to Success - Daily Herald
1919
lithograph
(advertising poster for newspaper)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

E. McKnight Kauffer
The Stetson Eagle
1942
offset-lithograph (advertising poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Vigil - The Pure Silk
1919
lithograph (advertising poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Winter Sales
1924
lithograph
(poster for London Underground)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Luggage Tag for R.M.S. Orontes
ca. 1935
offset-lithograph
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Study for Perfume Advertisement
ca. 1936
ink and gouache on paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Open Hand
1934
gouache on paper (study for advertisement)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Motif with Hand and Globe
ca. 1935
gouache on paper (study for advertisement)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Motif with Sailer hauling Cable
1930
gouache on paper (study for advertisement)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Motif with Spring and Leaf
ca. 1930-35
gouache on paper (study for advertisement)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Dostoevsky Quotation
ca. 1948
offset-lithograph
(advertising poster for Container Corporation of America)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
My New Gas Fires Light Themselves
1935
gouache on paper (study for advertising poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
The Greatest Show on Earth
(Elephant Ballet staged by George Balanchine)
1942
lithograph (poster)
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

E. McKnight Kauffer
Subway Posters Perform
1948
offset-lithograph
(poster reproduced with award citation)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

To one that painted Eccho

Thou witles wight, what meanes this mad intent

To draw my face and forme, unknowne to thee?

What meanst thou so for to molesten mee?

Whome never Eie behelde, nor man could see?

    Daughter to talking tongue, and Ayre am I,

My Mother is nothing when things are waide:

I am a voyce without the bodies aide.

When all the tale is tolde and sentence saide,

    Then I recite the latter worde afreshe

In mocking sort and counterfayting wies:

Within your eares my chiefest harbour lies,

There doe I woonne, not seene with mortall eies.

    And more to tell and farther to proceede,

I Eccho height of men below in grounde:

If thou wilt draw my Countefait in deede,

Then must thou paint (O Painter) but a sound.

– Ausonius(AD 310-394), translated by George Turberville (1567)