Poster, Soaring to Success! Daily Herald-the Early Bird

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Poster, Soaring to Success! Daily Herald-the Early Bird

This is a Poster. It was designed by E. McKnight Kauffer and published by Daily Herald. It is dated 1919. Its medium is lithograph. It is a part of the department.

In January 1917, a few months after making the woodcut Flight, Kauffer transformed the image into a poster design. He submitted it to the Poster Gallery section of Colour magazine, which featured unpublished commercial artwork to encourage businesses to employ artists. In 1919 Kauffer’s friend Francis Meynell picked the design to advertise the British Labour Party newspaper Daily Herald. The bright, cheerful yellow and flock of birds taking flight signaled the rise of postwar Britain.

It is credited Courtesy of William W. Crouse.

Print, Flight
woodcut.
Private Collection.
91.2019.1

Study for 'Quickest Way by Air Mail' poster. An angular, abstract rendering of a bird in flight (recalling a paper airplane) layered over a grey upside down triangle and a white background. The bird's body is a long blue triangle. The upper wing is formed by an elongated blue line that mimics the long side of the grey triangle behind it.

Drawing, Study for "Quickest Way by Air Mail"
brush and silver oil and blue gouache, graphite on heavy cream paper.
Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
1963-39-898

Study for 'Quickest Way by Air Mail' poster. An angular, abstract rendering of a bird in flight (recalling a paper airplane) is surrounded by blue paint strokes of sky over a white background. The bird's body is solid black with white circular eye and white triangular beak. The upper wing is formed by an elongated white triangle; the lower wing formed by a smaller elongated white triangle.

Drawing, Study for "Quickest Way by Air Mail"
brush and blue and black gouache, graphite on paper.
Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
1963-39-899

Our curators have highlighted 2 objects that are related to this one.

Drawing, Study for Imperial Airways Advertisement

Drawing, Study for Imperial Airways Advertisement
graphite, brush and black gouache on graph paper.
Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
1963-39-901

Study for 'Quickest Way by Air Mail' poster. An abstract rendering of a bird, the body in solid black trapezoid with a white circular eye, and two triangular wings rendered in heavy, black outline against a white background. A white diagonal line connects the two triangular wings across the central black body. The beak is indicated by a small white triangle which touches the left margin.

Drawing, Study for "Quickest Way by Air Mail"
pen and black ink, brush and black ink and white gouache, graphite on heavy....
Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
1963-39-900

Its dimensions are

H x W: 200.7 × 160 cm (6 ft. 7 in. × 5 ft. 3 in.) Frame H x W x D: 226.1 × 165.1 cm (7 ft. 5 in. × 5 ft. 5 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/4wUtYR/
Accession Number 85.2019.1
Object ID 2318805133