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"Americana Print: Pegs" Textile

Charles B. Falls  (American, Fort Wayne, Indiana 1874–1960 New York, New York)

Manufacturer:
Stehli Silks Corporation
Date:
ca. 1927
Medium:
Printed silk
Dimensions:
W. 38-1/2, L. 29-1/4 inches (97.8 x 74.3 cm)
Classification:
Textiles
Credit Line:
Gift of Stehli Silks Corporation, 1927
Accession Number:
27.243.2

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  • Description

    In 1925 Stehli Silks, a Swiss textile manufacturer with operations in New York, hired Kneeland ("Ruzzi") Green to design contemporary prints for its dress fabrics aimed at the American market. Green became art director within the year. He commissioned fifteen well-known artists who produced eighty designs for the company between 1925 and 1927, ranging from John Held Jr.'s evocations of jazz bands and Charleston dancers to a remarkable series of patterns adapted from photographs taken by Edward Steichen of such mundane objects as matches and matchboxes, sugar lumps, and thread. Another artist hired for the commission was Falls-a prominent printmaker, designer of stage sets and costumes, magazine illustrator, and muralist.

  • Exhibition History

    Newport Beach, California: Orange County Museum of Art, May 25 - August 19, 2001. Flint, Michigan: Flint Institute of Arts, September 14 - December 16, 2001. Philadelphia, Pennysylvania: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, January 11 - April 7, 2002. Charlotte, North Carolina: Mint Museum of Craft and Design, May 3 - July 28, 2002. Tulsa, Oklahoma: The Philbrook Museum of Art, August 23 - November 17, 2002. ¦American Modern¦.

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