Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design for a book cover for, "The Prodigal Never Returns," a collection of poems by Hugh Chisholm. Against a black ground, an undulating gray column across the length of the page at right. In the center of the column, three dots in a column. At center left, a white lyre between a winding white line which curves around the instrument and bends towards the gray column. At bottom left corner, three more white dots in a diagonally-oriented column. Across top, in white block lettering: THE PRODIGAL NEVER RETURNS. At center, to the right of the lyre in white lettering: POEMS. Towards the bottom of the gray column, in black lettering: HUGH CHISHOLM.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Client
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York, USA
- Author
- Hugh J. Chisholm Jr., American, 1912–1975
- Date
- ca. 1947
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- Medium
- Brush and white and gray gouache, brush and black ink, graphite, gray paper collage on black paper
- Dimensions
- 21.5 × 14.2 cm (8 7/16 × 5 9/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
