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Drawing, Study for a Motif with Tree Trunk and Leaf
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer. It is dated 1936 and we acquired it in 1963. Its medium is graphite, brush and black gouache on cream paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
It is credited Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
![A vertical cream gouache postcard for a Bauhaus exhibition in Weimar in 1923, with multiple geometric shapes in grey, green and black. In the upper left corner is a small grey vertical rectangle next to a small black square, beside this, stretching towards the right, is a large grey rectangle with black capitalised German text inside which reads [STAATLICHE BAUHAUS], meaning [State Bauhaus] with the words IN WEIMAR underneath written in white capitals inside a black rectangle. Below and to the right of this the words [eine macht 1ste], meaning [makes a first] are written in lowercase grey and black inside a thin-lined grid. At the bottom left, inside a large green vertical rectangle that stretches most of the bottom length, the word [AUSSTELLUNG], meaning [Exhibition] is written in capitalised black German. Above the letters AUSS is a large black square with a smaller white square outlined with a green border floating above its upper left corner. Above the the letters TELLUNG are two green vertical rectangles, beside this in the bottom right corner the German words [JULI, AUG. SEPT 1923], meaning [July, August, September 1923] are written in green capital letters with each letter inside a black square, forming a grid of sixteen squares.](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/358845_3c08b3898c76e81d_n.jpg "Design For Postcard, Das Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar Macht Eine 1ste Ausstellung (State Bauhaus in Weimar Makes a First Exhibition), 1923")
- Design For Postcard, Das Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar Macht Eine 1ste...
- gouache, ink, pencil.
- Collection of Merrill C. Berman.
- 15.2019.9
Its dimensions are
8.3 × 5.3 cm (3 1/4 × 2 1/16 in.)
Cite this object as
Drawing, Study for a Motif with Tree Trunk and Leaf; Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, active England, 1890–1954); USA; graphite, brush and black gouache on cream paper; 8.3 × 5.3 cm (3 1/4 × 2 1/16 in.); Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer; 1963-39-874
