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Poster for the London newspaper the Daily Herald, designed by E. McKnight Kauffer, 1918.
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Edward McKnight Kauffer

American artist
Also known as: E. McKnight Kauffer

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Art Deco

  • Leon Bakst: costume design for Ballets Russes
    In Art Deco

    …Poiret and the graphic artist Edward McKnight Kauffer represent those whose work directly reached a larger audience. New York City’s Rockefeller Center (especially its interiors supervised by Donald Deskey; built between 1929 and 1940), the Chrysler Building by William Van Alen, and the

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graphic design

  • Egyptian Book of the Dead
    In graphic design: Modernist experiments between the world wars

    …an American working in England, E. McKnight Kauffer, who was one of the first designers to understand how the elemental symbolic forms of Cubist and Futurist painting could be applied to the communicative medium of graphic design. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, his posters, book jackets, and…

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