Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Four studies of figures rendered in white outline in semi-abstraction. Each figure is surreally costumed. From left to right, one nude figure wears only a rounded shawl, one figure has a bird-like head, one figure is depicted in a two-tiered cape, and one figure is nude.
- 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
- 24 × 31.4 cm (9 7/16 × 12 3/8 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
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