Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Likely a study for an Imperial Airways (now, British Airways) advertisement or logo. At center right, a crescent shape in gray, bisected by a vertical black line which terminates at the bottom with a black triangle pointing to the left. The arrangement seems to form an abstract rendering of a bird in flight.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Client
- British Airways, England
- Date
- ca. 1935
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- Medium
- Graphite, brush and gouache on thin paper
- Dimensions
- 11.4 × 9.4 cm (4 1/2 × 3 11/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
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