Textile Design with a Checked Pattern Colored with Blue, Yellow, Purple, White and Hot Pink

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 checked pattern made up of alternating pairs of vertical purple stripes bordered with thinner white stripes and pairs of thinner vertical blue stripes that intersect with alternating pairs of horizontal yellow lines of the same thickness as the blue vertical lines and three horizontal groups of six thin white stripes bordered by thin purple lines, separated by two horizontal purple stripes of about the same thickness as the yellow and blue stripes, over a hot-pink background.