Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design for a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey poster. At center, two elephants standing on their hind legs, wearing pink ballet tutus, with a yellow spotlight shining on them from upper left. At right, a red, white and blue, podium, upon which a ballet dancer stands with hands raised. The podium is inscribed in black text: BUY DEFENSE BONDS. At top, in white text, partially colored in yellow and blue: THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH. Below, on right, in tan text: PRESENTS 50 / FAMOUS ELEPHANTS / WITH BEAUTIFUL GIRLS; at left: IN AN ORIGINAL BALLET / COMPOSED BY IGOR STRAVINSKY / STAGED BY GEORGE BALANCHINE. At bottom in yellow and blue text: RINGLING BROS AND BARNUM & BAILEY.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Client
- Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, USA
- Date
- March 12, 1942
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- Medium
- Brush and poster paint on board
- Dimensions
- 61.2 × 45.5 cm (24 1/8 × 17 15/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
