For nearly 20 years between the two world wars, E. McKnight Kauffer, an American, was the most celebrated graphic designer in England.
Emily M. Orr
Emily M. Orr is the assistant curator of modern and contemporary American design at Cooper Hewitt. Her exhibitions at Cooper Hewitt include Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer (2021), Botanical Expressions (2019–20), and The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s (2017). Orr is the author of Designing the Department Store: Display and Retail at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Bloomsbury, 2019).
