Textile Design with White and Yellow Stylized Flowers over a Pink, White and Brown Stiped Background

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 vertical stripes composed of intersecting white strokes and larger brown strokes that almost look like abstracted bushes over a pink ground above which stand out bundles of stylized flowers with white petals and yellos pistils and yellow flower buds on brown branches with leaves. This design presents a play on traditional "chintz" textile motifs that was common in the production of American textiles during the 1930s and 1940s.