Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Two studies of an abstractly rendered head. At left, head shaded in blue and gray, with facial features rendered in black line. A large hoop earring hangs from the head’s left ear. The neck of the figure is depicted as a frayed, zig-zag line. At right and slightly above, a second head, shaded in brown and black. This head also has a zig-zag neckline, but does not have an earring. Surrounding the image, four marks indicating framing.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Date
- probably 1930s
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- Medium
- Colored pencil, graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 20 × 23.7 cm (7 7/8 × 9 5/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
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