Reigate
The American artist and designer Edward McKnight Kauffer worked in London between 1914 and 1940 and was considered the preeminent poster artist in Britain in the interwar period. He was best known for posters commissioned by Frank Pick for both the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (known as the London Underground or Tube) and the London Passenger Transport Board (later London Transport) to promote public transportation. Largely unknown at the time of his hire, Kauffer published his first poster for Pick in 1915 and eventually produced over 120 works for Pick and his agencies. Made for the Underground, this poster advertises bus routes to Reigate, a town in Surrey. Kauffer reimagined the British landscape through an expressionist lens, using bold, contrasting colors and simplified shapes.
Artwork Details
- Title: Reigate
- Artist: Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, Great Falls, Montana 1890–1954 New York)
- Date: 1915
- Medium: Chromolithograph
- Dimensions: Sheet: 30 × 20 in. (76.2 × 50.8 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Purchase, Leslie and Johanna Garfield Gift, Lila Acheson Wallace, Charles and Jessie Price, and David T Schiff Gifts, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, Dolores Valvidia Hurlburt Bequest, PECO Foundation and Friends of Drawings and Prints Gifts, and funds from various donors, 2019
- Object Number: 2019.592.162
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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Edward McKnight Kauffer
1920
Multiple artists/makers
1915, printed 1916
Multiple artists/makers
1915
Multiple artists/makers
1920
Multiple artists/makers
1927
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