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EDWARD MCKNIGHT KAUFFER
(1890-1954)
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SPECIAL AREAS EXHIBITION /
CHARING CROSS STATION. 1936.
39
1
/
4
x24
1
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4
inches, 99
3
/
4
x61
1
/
2
cm. Waterlow &
Sons Ltd., London.
Condition A: minor creases in image. Framed.
In the 1930s, Frank Pick (the CEO of the
London Passenger Transport Board) decided
to use the Charing Cross Station ticket hall as
an exhibitions space. Kauffer designed a large
photographic mural for the area, and “Pick
also commissioned him to design posters and
car-cards publicizing the new exhibition
centre” (Kauffer p. 66). Accomplished in the
New Typography style, this was also one of
Kauffer’s earliest uses of photomontage in a
poster for the London Underground.
RARE
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Kauffer 213.
[1,500/2,000]
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