Design for Fortune, Shipping Cargo
Object Details
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Client
- Fortune, New York, New York, USA
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design for the cover of an issue of Fortune magazine. Image of the interior of a cargo ship. At bottom center are two blue silhouettes of workers, one is pushing a barrel at center and the other to the right is leaning against cargo containers. Seen at top is the opening where another worker signals down a crane, lowering a cargo container.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- November 1945
- Accession Number
- 1963-39-1217
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Brush and gouache, graphite on illustration board
- Dimensions
- 42.7 × 35.5 cm (16 13/16 × 14 in.)
- made in
- New York, New York, 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_1963-39-1217
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq41324f02f-1cd1-423d-a8e7-110ce974a21c
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