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Object Timeline

1938	Work on this object began.
1963	We acquired this object.
2013	We photographed this object. This was an Object of the Day.
2021	We exhibited this object.
2022	You found it!

Poster, Autumn Woods, 1938

This is a Poster. It was designed by E. McKnight Kauffer and published by London Passenger Transport Board. It is dated 1938 and we acquired it in 1963. Its medium is lithograph. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

In the 1930s, Kauffer returned to painting landscapes in his spare time, particularly when he was in the South of France or at his country home. After many years of collaboration with Frank Pick, Kauffer’s latest styles fell out of favor with him. Kauffer received fewer commissions from the Underground. This autumnal landscape was one of his last.

This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Beech woods in Buckinghamshire.

This object was donated by Mrs. Edward McKnight Kauffer. It is credited Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.

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Our curators have highlighted 5 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

Painterly-looking stylized print featuring, in the center, a large tree with branches stretched upwards into clusters of green leaves; creating a solid green area at the top with large, white, all caps, serif text: 'OXHEY WOODS' layered on top fitted across the width. The bark of the tree is a dark gray/almost black with long solid brush-like strokes with shades of beige to brown layered on top, appearing like tiles following the curvature of the trunk and branches. Below the tree an organic cloud-like shadow in a deep green on top of the lighter green grass and a blue on a yellow road; begins in the left corner foreground and curves diagonally to the right and upwards and bends around the right of the tree. The winding road continues into the background and cuts through a group of a variety of smaller-scaled, less detailed trees. The lower left-hand corner is scattered with various toadstools.

Poster, Oxhey Woods
offset lithograph on paper, lined.
Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
1963-39-13

Poster, Go Great Western to Cornwall
lithograph on paper, lined.
Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
1963-39-60

Poster, A Pillar'd Shade
offset lithograph on paper mounted on board.
Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
1963-39-49

Its dimensions are

101.4 × 62.2 cm (39 15/16 × 24 1/2 in.)

It is signed

Signed in black ink, lower left: E McKnight Kauffer Hon. R.D.I

It is inscribed

Printed in black ink, lower left: 38 . 87IF . 2000; lower right: The Baynard Press, London

Cite this object as

Poster, Autumn Woods, 1938; Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, active England, 1890–1954); England; lithograph; 101.4 × 62.2 cm (39 15/16 × 24 1/2 in.); Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer; 1963-39-99

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2Cykr/
Accession Number 1963-39-99
Object ID 18449303