Textile Design with White, Brown and Aquamarine Stripes Decorated with White-and-Brown Circles

Vertical panel with a textile design that is part of a group of 266 textile designs by the American artist Robert Bryer, possibly made for United Designing Co., since most of the designs carry a stamp of the "United Designing Co. / WOrth 4 - 8975". Some of them also contain a stamp in the verso of the "Original Designing Company, Inc."

The collection contains a great variety of designs, from the more traditional floral and stripe patterns, to thematic designs based on various travel destinations, with palm trees and other holiday attributes. Especially interesting among these are patterns inspired by textiles and paintings of Native American tribes, including the Inca, Navajo, Aztec and Maya. The patterns are composed of semi-abstract figures distributed across the design in a regular or, in some cases, a more casual fashion. The spontaneity of designs and the use of floral and animal motifs suggest they were created for printed textiles in the forties.

This particular textile design is made up of alternating vertical stripes of white and aquamarine color, with additional thinner vertical stripes of brown color that lie towards the left side of the white stripes. The intersections between the white and aquamarine stripes that are not decorated with thin brown stripes are decorated with alternating vertical strips of pairs of circles, which are half-rendered with brown above the white stripe and half-rendered with white above the aquamarine stripe.