Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Study for an illustration for a 1946 edition of The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, published by Knopf in New York. Abstract rendering of a bust, facing frontally, with a brown cloth draped over their head and shoulders. The face is only partially indicated, and is white. The figure is set against a blue, sky-like ground.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, USA
- Author
- Edgar Allan Poe, American, 1809–1849
- Date
- 1946
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- Medium
- Brush and gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- 35 × 25.7 cm (13 3/4 × 10 1/8 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
