Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Study of an open book, lying on a table in front of a window. Surrounding the window, billowing curtains in white. Through the window, a starry sky. Scene is rendered in semi-abstraction.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Date
- 1940–1945
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- Medium
- Brush and white gouache on black paper
- Dimensions
- 17.3 × 12.4 cm (6 13/16 × 4 7/8 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
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