Carpet
Kauffer spent the majority of his career working as a graphic designer in England, creating advertising posters that reflected his interest in Cubism, Italian Futurism, and Vorticism, a British art movement with affinities to Cubist abstraction and Futurism’s radical embrace of the machine. By the late 1920s Kauffer was also designing similarly inspired textiles and theatrical sets. Woven in wool and jute by the Wilton Royal Carpet Factory, this rug, with its collagelike combination of geometric shapes and planes of color, demonstrates Kauffer’s ongoing engagement with abstract design.
Artwork Details
- Title: Carpet
- Designer: Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, Great Falls, Montana 1890–1954 New York)
- Date: ca. 1929
- Medium: Wool and jute
- Dimensions: 82 3/4 × 46 1/8 in., 57.3 lb. (210.2 × 117.2 cm, 26 kg)
- Classification: Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line: The Cynthia Hazen Polsky Fund, 1992
- Object Number: 1992.64
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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