Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Illustration for a 1946 edition of The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, published by Knopf in New York. Likely this illustration was created to accompany, Eureka: A Prose Poem (originally published in 1848), in Volume II. In the foreground, an abstract figure with a human-like form and a geometric, see-through torso, reclines sideways. Behind and to the left, a black sun with rays shining in a multi-colored sky.
- 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
- 40.6 × 30.4 cm (16 × 11 15/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
