Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Study for a "Spring in the Country" Poster for the London Transport. At top, a brown tree with some green, bushy leaves on its top-most branches. Behind, a large gray leaf. Below, a light green, abstracted field in perspective. In gray text underneath: SPRING IN THE COUNTRY / LETTER_RESS BILL. Rows of lines in graphite fill the bottom half of the page, indicating space for copy. At bottom, left: [London Underground logo].
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Client
- London Passenger Transport Board, London, England
- Great Western Railway, London, England
- Date
- February 9, 1937
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- Medium
- Brush and gouache, graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 32 × 20.1 cm (12 5/8 × 7 15/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
