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	We acquired this object.
1916	Work on this object began.
2021	We photographed this object. We exhibited this object.
2024	You found it!

Print, Flight

This is a Print. It was designed by E. McKnight Kauffer. It is dated 1916. Its medium is woodcut. It is a part of the department.

Kauffer began his first experiments with vorticism in printmaking. In Housetops and Flight, he turned his subjects into geometric forms, using the balance between black and white to flatten the picture plane and convey a sense of motion. In preparation for Flight, Kauffer described carefully and obsessively observing birds in the sky. But he was also looking to 19th-century Japanese prints, and likely drew inspiration from the print reproduced below.

It is credited Private Collection.

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

Poster, Soaring to Success! Daily Herald-the Early Bird
lithograph.
Courtesy of William W. Crouse.
85.2019.1

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

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

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

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

Its dimensions are

H x W: 13.7 × 22.9 cm (5 3/8 in. × 9 in.) Frame H x W x D: 40.6 × 48.3 × 2.5 cm (16 × 19 × 1 in.)

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

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/4wUtYW/
Accession Number 91.2019.1
Object ID 2318805138