| LC control no. | n 85830437 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Kauffer, E. McKnight (Edward McKnight), 1890-1954 |
| Variant(s) | Kauffer, Edward McKnight, 1890-1954 Kauffer, Ted, 1890-1954 EMKK, 1890-1954 |
| Associated country | United States England |
| Located | New York (N.Y.) Evansville (Ind.) San Francisco (Calif.) New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1890-12-14 |
| Death date | 1954-10-22 |
| Place of birth | Great Falls (Mont.) |
| Field of activity | Posters Book cover art Commercial art Book jackets Paperbacks |
| Profession or occupation | Graphic artists Painters Commercial artists Illustrators |
| Found in | nuc85-65304: Poe, E. A. The complete poems and stories ... 1976, c1951 (hdg. on IU rept.: Kauffer, Edward McKnight, 1890- ; usage: E. McKnight Kauffer) Chandler, R. The high window, 1945: cover (EMKK) Design, 2007: t.p. (E. McKnight Kauffer) p. 7 (McKnight Kauffer, Edward Kauffer, Ted Kauffer, born simply Edward Kauffer--the McKnight was added later) LC data base, 12-23-85 (hdg.: Kauffer, Edward McKnight, 1890- ) Grove Art Online, Nov. 7, 2006 (Kauffer, E(dward Leland) McKnight; b. Dec. 14, 1890, Great Falls, MT, d. Oct. 22, 1954, New York; American designer and painter, active in England) Wikipedia, search Oct. 27, 2023 (Edward McKnight Kauffer (14 December 1890 - 22 October 1954); American artist and graphic designer who lived for much of his life in the United Kingdom; worked mainly in poster art, but was also active as a painter, book illustrator and theatre designer; born in Great Falls, Montana; died in New York City) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_McKnight_Kauffer> Schreuders, P. Paperbacks, U.S.A., 1981 pages 212-213 (E. McKnight Kauffer; born December 14, 1890 in Great Falls, Montana, and grew up in Evansville, Indiana; in 1907 moved to San Francisco and worked in Paul Elder's bookshop where he met Joseph E. McKnight; McKnight sponsored him on a trip to Paris to study painting and Kauffer adopted his benefactor's last name as his middle name; during World War I he moved to England where he designed posters for the London Underground, Great Western Railways, and others; moved to New York in 1940, where he made war posters and began designing book jackets for Modern Library, Knopf, McGraw-Hill, Random House, World, Harcourt Brace, Harper & Brothers, Macmillan, Holt, and other publishing houses; did cover art for Pocket Books in the mid-1940s; died on October 22, 1954) |
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