Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design for "You Can Be Sure of Shell" advertisement. At center, a white shell rests on top of a horizontal yellow line, which fades to red going left to right. Behind, a diagonally oriented black rectangle. At top, in black and white sans-serif type: YOU CAN BE SURE OF; at bottom, in red, serif font: SHELL.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Client
- Shell-Mex and BP Ltd., London, England
- Date
- 1936
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- Medium
- Brush and gouache and graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.1 × 18.9 cm (9 7/8 × 7 7/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
