![Poster design encouraging travel to Europe via American Airlines. Stylized eagle, shown in profile facing right, composed from flat, geometric planes of blue and navy. Text in red, white, and blue, across poster on a diagonal: AMERICAN AIRLINES / TO / EUROPE. Superimposed on a blue stripe at bottom, center: [American Airlines logo in white and red]]( https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/65119_0389eb3402775124_b.jpg
"Poster design encouraging travel to Europe via American Airlines. Stylized eagle, shown in profile facing right, composed from flat, geometric planes of blue and navy. Text in red, white, and blue, across poster on a diagonal: AMERICAN AIRLINES / TO / EUROPE. Superimposed on a blue stripe at bottom, center: [American Airlines logo in white and red]")
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Poster, American Airlines to Europe, ca. 1948
This is a Poster. It was designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer and made for (as the client) American Airlines. It is dated ca. 1948 and we acquired it in 1963. Its medium is offset lithograph on paper, lined. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was
donated by
Mrs. Edward McKnight Kauffer.
It is credited Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- Poster, The Invisible City, 1972
- offset lithograph on white wove paper.
- Gift of Chermayeff and Geismar Associates.
- 1981-29-59
![Poster for American Airlines advertising New York. Stylized white skyscrapers in foreground, against blue sky with clouds. American flag hangs from building facade, lower center. Text in light blue and white, upper center: AMERICAN / AIRLINES; in blue, lower left: [American Airlines logo in black] TO NEW YORK.](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/90750_7c056c47435fe58c_n.jpg "Poster for American Airlines advertising New York. Stylized white skyscrapers in foreground, against blue sky with clouds. American flag hangs from building facade, lower center. Text in light blue and white, upper center: AMERICAN / AIRLINES; in blue, lower left: [American Airlines logo in black] TO NEW YORK.")
- Poster, American Airlines to New York, 1948
- offset lithograph on white wove paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-139
Its dimensions are
102 × 76.5 cm (40 3/16 × 30 1/8 in.)
It is signed
Printed in script in white and blue, lower left (on bird): E. McKnight Kauffer,
Cite this object as
Poster, American Airlines to Europe, ca. 1948; Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, active England, 1890–1954); USA; offset lithograph on paper, lined; 102 × 76.5 cm (40 3/16 × 30 1/8 in.); Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer; 1963-39-138
