Reeves attended art schools from 1910 until the late teens in New York and from 1920 to 1927 in Paris, where she studied with Fernand Léger at the Académie Moderne. In 1930 the New York City retailer W. & J. Sloane commissioned her to design modern fabrics for a country house. This textile was inspired by the subject matter, style, and scale of Cubist paintings by Picasso and Léger.
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Title:Figures with Still Life
Artist:Ruth Reeves (American, Redlands, California 1892–1966 New Delhi, India)
Date:1930
Medium:Block-printed cotton velvet
Dimensions:91 3/8 x 46 in. (232.1 x 116.8 cm)
Classification:Textiles-Tapestries
Credit Line:Bequest of James H. Stubblebine, 1987
Accession Number:1987.473.5
W. & J. Sloane, New York (from 1930); Gladys Koch (until 1973; sold on October 26, 1973 to Stubblebine); James H. Stubblebine, New York (1973–d. 1987; his bequest to MMA)
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Modern, 1925–1940: Design for a New Age," May 16, 2000–January 7, extended to February 4, 2001, unnumbered cat. (p. 71).
Newport Beach, Calif. Orange County Museum of Art. "American Modern, 1925–1940: Design for a New Age," May 25–August 19, 2001, unnumbered cat.
Flint. Flint Institute of Arts. "American Modern, 1925–1940: Design for a New Age," September 14–December 16, 2001, unnumbered cat.
Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. "American Modern, 1925–1940: Design for a New Age," January 11–April 7, 2002, unnumbered cat.
Charlotte. Mint Museum of Craft and Design. "American Modern, 1925–1940: Design for a New Age," May 3–July 28, 2002, unnumbered cat.
Tulsa. Philbrook Museum of Art. "American Modern, 1925–1940: Design for a New Age," August 23–November 17, 2002, unnumbered cat.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Highlights from the Modern Design Collection: 1900–Present, Part II," May 23, 2011–July 1, 2012, no catalogue.
Karen Davies. At Home in Manhattan: Modern Decorative Arts, 1925 to the Depression. Exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, 1983, p. 54, no. 34, ill.
Romare Bearden (American, Charlotte, North Carolina 1911–1988 New York)
1971
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