![Poster design encouraging travel to Paris via American Airlines. Photoillustration in yellow and turquoise of the Winged Victory of Samothrace from the Louvre collection.Text in black and turquoise, upper center: AMERICAN AIRLINES; center right, multicolored text: PARIS. [American Airlines logo in light blue], lower right.]( https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/324643_e244fd6dd50b0c72_b.jpg
"Poster design encouraging travel to Paris via American Airlines. Photoillustration in yellow and turquoise of the Winged Victory of Samothrace from the Louvre collection.Text in black and turquoise, upper center: AMERICAN AIRLINES; center right, multicolored text: PARIS. [American Airlines logo in light blue], lower right.")
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Poster, Paris, 1950
This is a Poster. It was designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer and made for (as the client) American Airlines. It is dated 1950 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.
- Sidewall, Views of Paris, 1946–50
- screen-printed paper.
- Gift of Harvey Smith.
- 1950-126-4-a,b
Its dimensions are
107.1 × 79 cm (42 3/16 × 31 1/8 in.)
It is signed
Printed in script in light blue ink, lower right: E. McKnight Kauffer
It is inscribed
Printed in black ink, lower left: LITHO IN U. S. A.
Cite this object as
Poster, Paris, 1950; Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, active England, 1890–1954); USA; offset lithograph on paper, lined; 107.1 × 79 cm (42 3/16 × 31 1/8 in.); Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer; 1963-39-141
