Sunday, November 23, 2025

E. McKnight Kauffer

E. McKnight Kauffer
Godstone
1915
lithograph
(poster for London Underground)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum


E. McKnight Kauffer
The Lodger by Alfred Hitchcock
1926
tempera on paper
(design for silent film poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Metropolis by Fritz Lang
1926
gouache on paper
(design for silent film poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Close-up of Eye
1930
hand-colored lithograph
(study for safety poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Illustration for Don Quixote
1930
pochoir
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Illustration for Venus rising from the Sea
1931
pochoir
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Illustration for Venus rising from the Sea
1931
pochoir
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Illustration for Venus rising from the Sea
1931
pochoir
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Stonehenge - See Britain First on Shell
1932
lithograph (advertising poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
L.C.C. Evening Classes
1935
gouache and collage on paper
(study for London Underground poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
With Best Wishes for 1936
1936
lithograph (greeting card)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

E. McKnight Kauffer
Earls Court
1936
gouache on paper
(study for London Transport poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Earls Court
1937
gouache on paper
(study for London Transport poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
International Brigade
1938
lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Harper's Bazaar (London)
1940
halftone-print (magazine cover)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Illustration for Green Mansions by W.H. Hudson
1944
lithograph
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

E. McKnight Kauffer
Illustration for Green Mansions by W.H. Hudson
1944
lithograph
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

from Windsor Forest

Oft in her Glass the musing Shepherd spies
The headlong Mountains and the downward Skies,
The watry Landskip of the pendant Woods,
And absent Trees that tremble in the Floods;
In the clear azure Gleam the Flocks are seen,
And floating Forests paint the Waves with Green.

– Ausonius(AD 310-394), as adapted and translated by Alexander Pope (1713)