Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design for a composition showing a gray door at left, with an abstracted standing figure composed of yellow, blue, red and white cubistic shapes, seemingly reading a newspaper at center. Behind the figure, the branches of a partially-visible bare tree reach around the figure against a black background.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Date
- 1935–1939
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- Medium
- Brush and gouache, graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 39.8 × 22.2 cm (15 11/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
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