Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design for a book cover for, "The Pathway to Science," by C. Kenneth Mees. Against a blue ground, a large brown vase, with a line drawing of a cloven and horned animal in right profile superimposed over the neck of the vase. Above and to the left, a single yellow star. Overlapping the right side of the vase, at bottom, a white trapezoid in outline, surrounding a yellow sun or moon surrounded by blue and white clouds. Across top of image, in blue and white text: THE PATHWAY / TO SCIENCE. At bottom of image, in blue and yellow text: BY / C. KENNETH MEES. Surrounding the image, graphite framing lines.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Date
- probably 1940s
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- Medium
- Brush and gouache, brush and brown watercolor, graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.9 × 23.1 cm (11 × 9 1/8 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
