Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Study of a motif for a National Safety Week poster, "Be On Guard Against Accidents". A close-up depiction of a black and white abstracted face facing frontally, cropped to only show the left eye, eyebrow, and bridge of the nose. Features of the eye and eyelash are detailed in fine gray and white brush strokes. Across the forehead, a corner of a red triangle in outline.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Client
- Underground Electric Railways Company of London, Ltd., London, England, United Kingdom
- Date
- 1930
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- Medium
- Lithograph, hand-colored additions in brush and gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- 15.3 × 15.3 cm (6 × 6 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
