Textile Design with Roundels With Red Roses Over a Blue Background with Thin Bundles of Branches with Leaves and Small Flowers
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 textile design is made up of a blue background with thin bundles of light blue branches with small stylized flowers and flower buds over which stand out pairs of red roses with green leaves and offsetting dark blue thorns, white roundels surrounded by scales with one red rose and green leaves, and slightly larger black roundels surrounded by scales with a pair of red roses and green leaves. This design reflects the re-creation of "chintz" motifs that took place in the production of American textiles during the 1930s and 1940s, by using the traditionally used roses in an alternative way, as decorations for other motifs.
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 textile design is made up of a blue background with thin bundles of light blue branches with small stylized flowers and flower buds over which stand out pairs of red roses with green leaves and offsetting dark blue thorns, white roundels surrounded by scales with one red rose and green leaves, and slightly larger black roundels surrounded by scales with a pair of red roses and green leaves. This design reflects the re-creation of "chintz" motifs that took place in the production of American textiles during the 1930s and 1940s, by using the traditionally used roses in an alternative way, as decorations for other motifs.
Artwork Details
- Title: Textile Design with Roundels With Red Roses Over a Blue Background with Thin Bundles of Branches with Leaves and Small Flowers
- Artist: Robert Bryer (American, 20th century)
- Date: ca. 1940–50
- Medium: Gouache over graphite
- Dimensions: Image: 5 1/16 × 4 3/4 in. (12.9 × 12 cm)
Sheet: 12 in. × 10 1/4 in. (30.5 × 26 cm) - Classifications: Drawings, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Gift of Stephen Perlow, 1981
- Object Number: 1981.1055.38
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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