Edward McKnight Kauffer

An American in London who brought Cubism and Vorticism to the bus stop. Frank Pick of the Underground commissioned well over 100 posters from him between the wars, and Kauffer's are the ones that still look modern: Soaring to Success! for the Daily Herald in 1919, with its flock of angular birds, or his flattened landscapes for weekend trips out of town. Pick's patient patronage, which treated posters as public art, made the work possible, and Kauffer credited him for it.