MMT: Revealed! Edward McKnight Kauffer
The graphic artist is Edward McKnight Kauffer! Library Sloth sits with the illustration for Requiem for a Nun book jacket. Referred to as “the Picasso of advertising design” Edward McKnight Kauffer was an influential advertising poster artist in Europe during the 1920s and 1930s. He produced the dust jacket art for the 1951 first edition of William Faulkner’s Requiem for a Nun . Portrait of Edward McKnight Kauffer Kauffer may be best known for the 140 posters that he produced for London Underground, and later London Transport. The posters span many styles: many show abstract influences, including futurism, cubism, and vorticism; others evoke impressionist influences such as Japanese woodcuts. Kauffer returned to America at the outbreak of World War II where he struggled in the more competitive New York City advertising atmosphere until he was approached to do a series of posters for American Airlines in 1947. He created posters for Shell Oil and othe