Object Details
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Client
- American Airlines, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design for an American Airlines poster encouraging travel to Chicago. Aerial view of the cityscape of Chicago showing a river running through the middle of skyscrapers, including a depiction of what is likely the Wrigley Building. Text in white and black, upper center: AMERICAN AIRLINES; in white, lower right: CHICAGO.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- ca. 1948
- Accession Number
- 1963-39-162
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Brush and gouache on paper, mounted on thick white paper
- Dimensions
- 24 × 19.1 cm (9 7/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
- made in
- USA
- place depicted
- Chicago
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1963-39-162
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4c075bf5c-613f-4faa-ae0b-016359d01833
