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Object Timeline

1955

  • Work on this object began.

1997

  • We acquired this object.

2025

  • You found it!

Poster, How Bravely Autumn Paints Upon the Sky..., 1955

This is a Poster. It was designed by E. McKnight Kauffer and printed by Sanders Phillips and Company, Ltd. at The Baynard Press and made for (as the client) London Passenger Transport Board. It is dated 1955 and we acquired it in 1997. Its medium is lithograph on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Grace Schulman. It is credited Gift of Grace Schulman.

Its dimensions are

101.5 × 63 cm (39 15/16 × 24 13/16 in.)

It is signed

Printed in script, in black ink, center left: E. McKnight Kauffer, Hon. R.D.I.

It is inscribed

Printed in black ink, bottom left: 7/55-1404M-2000; bottom right: THE BAYNARD PRESS

Cite this object as

Poster, How Bravely Autumn Paints Upon the Sky..., 1955; Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, active England, 1890–1954); Printed by Sanders Phillips and Company, Ltd. at The Baynard Press; Client: London Passenger Transport Board (England, GB, United Kingdom); lithograph on paper; 101.5 × 63 cm (39 15/16 × 24 13/16 in.); Gift of Grace Schulman; 1997-134-2

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