E. MCKNIGHT KAUFFER WESTMINSTER FROM THE THAMES. 1934. 40x25 inches. Vincent Brooks Day & Son, London. Condition B+: repaired tears, restoration and creases in margins; vertical and horizontal folds. One in a series of three posters Kauffer created for London Transport, the others are The Tower of London and Buckingham Palace. "Kauffer has won for himself a leading position among poster designers by his strongly contemporary style. His posters are made up of familiar elements . . . heightened in effect to make them strange and attractive" (Purvis p. 20). Although American born, Kauffer created hundreds of Art Deco, Surrrealist and Cubist inspired posters for London Underground, his most important client. Purvis, 20.
