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Drawing, Design for "American Airlines, Sweden" Poster

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer and made for (as the client) American Airlines. We acquired it in 1991. Its medium is brush and gouache, pen and ink, graphite, collage on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Paul Laird.

Its dimensions are

59.7 × 45.7 cm (23 1/2 × 18 in.)

It is signed

Signed in gray gouache, lower right: E. McKnight Kauffer [vertically]

It is inscribed

In blue ink, in a column along left margin: 2 blue / 1 red. / 1 [illegible] / 2 greys / 1 [illegible] / 1 [illegible]. In black crayon, at bottom margin, center: Blow up to 28" [underlined by double headed arrow]. In black ink, at right margin: AMER AIRLINES 95210 [vertically].

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for "American Airlines, Sweden" Poster; Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, active England, 1890–1954); Client: American Airlines (United States); USA; brush and gouache, pen and ink, graphite, collage on paper; 59.7 × 45.7 cm (23 1/2 × 18 in.); 1991-22-2

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