![Design for "Keep Your Red Cross at His Side" poster. At center, a large white arrow with a red cross on it points downwards and to the right towards the word, in white: GIVE. Text above: KEEP [in white] YOUR - [in blue] RED CROSS [in red] AT HIS SIDE [in white]. Image is on a black and blue background.]( https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/55874_9206b62f05dac6b9_b.jpg
"Design for \"Keep Your Red Cross at His Side\" poster. At center, a large white arrow with a red cross on it points downwards and to the right towards the word, in white: GIVE. Text above: KEEP [in white] YOUR - [in blue] RED CROSS [in red] AT HIS SIDE [in white]. Image is on a black and blue background.")
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Drawing, Design for "Keep Your Red Cross at His Side", ca. 1944
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer and made for (as the client) American Red Cross. It is dated ca. 1944 and we acquired it in 1963. Its medium is brush and gouache, graphite on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was
donated by
Mrs. Edward McKnight Kauffer.
It is credited Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
Its dimensions are
25.2 × 44.6 cm (9 15/16 × 17 9/16 in.)
It is signed
Signed in white gouache, lower right: E. McKnight Kauffer
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for "Keep Your Red Cross at His Side", ca. 1944; Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, active England, 1890–1954); USA; brush and gouache, graphite on paper; 25.2 × 44.6 cm (9 15/16 × 17 9/16 in.); Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer; 1963-39-599
