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Object Timeline

1930	Work on this object began.
1940	Work on this object ended.
1963	We acquired this object.
2015	We photographed this object.
2018	We photographed this object.
2024	You found it!

Drawing, Design for an Advertisement

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer and made for (as the client) Gas Light and Coke Company. It is dated ca. 1935 and we acquired it in 1963. Its medium is graphite, brush and gouache on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Kristina Parsons and Mrs. Edward McKnight Kauffer. It is credited Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.

A postcard with a pink and blue background. There is a grey figure in the center of the background in a pose. The right arm is bent doing a salute while the left arm is bent with the hand sticking up in the air. The right leg is straight while the left leg is bent in a kneeling position. The figure also has a red heart on the left side of the chest. There is a pink bridge the lower part of the postcard with a black and white ship expelling smoke through its smokestack.

Postcard, Grösse Brücken Revue (Great Bridge Revue)
lithograph.
Collection of Merrill C. Berman.
15.2019.30

Its dimensions are

19 × 36.5 cm (7 1/2 × 14 3/8 in.)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for an Advertisement; Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, active England, 1890–1954); Client: Gas Light and Coke Company; USA; graphite, brush and gouache on paper; 19 × 36.5 cm (7 1/2 × 14 3/8 in.); Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer; 1963-39-911

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2Cyht/
Accession Number 1963-39-911
Object ID 18449131