Textile Design with Vertical Garlands of Flowers and Leaves, Stripes and Stippled Triangles

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 garlands of green undulating branches with leaves and stylized flowers with yellow petals and red pistils or red petals and yellow pistils and bundles of small rosettes with red petals and yellow pistils, separated by vertical stripes of dark blue color with highlights created by leaving parts unrendered and filling them with stipples. Above this striped pattern stand out scatteded triangles created with blue stipples. This design presents a playful re-creation of floral "chintz" motifs that took place in the production of American textiles during the 1930s and 1940s.