Winter Sports
Object Details
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Client
- American Airlines, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Poster for American Airlines advertising places to travel for winter sports. At center, a snowman wearing a red scarf, black top hat, and eye patch, holding a pine tree branch and a ski pole, in a snowy landscape. In black and white text, upper center: AMERICAN AIRLINES; in multicolored text, across poster: CALIFORNIA / SWITZERLAND / SCANDINAVIA / CANADA / NEW ENGLAND / WINTER SPORTS [American Airlines logo].
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- 1948
- Accession Number
- 1963-39-144
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Poster
- Type
- Poster
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on paper, lined
- Dimensions
- 107.1 × 79.2 cm (42 3/16 × 31 3/16 in.)
- made in
- USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1963-39-144
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4c87a74c1-73e0-417f-8ccf-c7b1cd6d645b
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