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1930

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2021

2025

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Chapbook, Marina

This is a Chapbook. It was written by T. S. Eliot and designed by E. McKnight Kauffer and published by Faber and Faber and printed by The Curwen Press.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Simon Rendall as part of Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer.

It is dated 1930. Its medium is letterpress. It is a part of the Exhibitions department.

T. S. Eliot and Kauffer met through The Arts League of Service and formed a lifelong friendship. Once Eliot became the director of the publishing house Faber & Faber, Kauffer was commissioned to illustrate each of Eliot’s single-poem publications, which were subsequently republished as the Ariel poems. “Yours is the only kind of decoration I can endure,” Eliot wrote Kauffer in 1930.

It is credited Simon Rendall.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 18.2 × 12.2 cm (7 3/16 × 4 13/16 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer.

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