Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design for a book cover for, "Roseanna McCoy," a novel by Alberta Hannum. Against a gray ground, a standing figure wearing a long-skirted dress, looks behind into the distance at an open door which frames a blue landscape beyond. At the left of the figure, a rocking chair. Both the figure and the rocking chair are depicted in black and gray. Centered at top of image, in black and white lettering: ROSEANNA McCOY / A NOVEL. Across bottom of image, in gray lettering: BY ALBERTA HANNUM / AUTHOR OF “SPIN A SILVER DOLLAR”.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Client
- Henry Holt and Company, Inc., New York, New York, USA
- Author
- Alberta Pierson Hannum, American, 1906–1985
- Date
- ca. 1947
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- Medium
- Brush and gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.8 × 14.7 cm (8 3/16 × 5 13/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
