Textile Design with Scrolling Leaves and Bundles with Stylized Leaves and Flowers with Paisley Motifs

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 scrolling light blue leaves and bundles of yellow, green and red leaves with stylized flowers: small rosettes with white petals, some of them decorated with black stipples of with pink and red lines, and other oriental stylized flowers with white petals with pink and red lines and with pistils formed of paisley motifs colored with yellow, pink and red. The bundles are positioned over black stipples. The background is colored with blue. This design presents a playful re-creation of "chintz" motifs that took place in the production of American textiles during the 1930s and 1940s.