Textile Design with a Red-and-Blue Checked Pattern Decorated with Small Rosettes and Stylized Fruit 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 particular textile design is made up of a checked background with intersecting vertical and horizontal groups of three thin blue stripes and intersecting vertical and horizontal strips of triangles of two shades of red and dark blue triangles in the intersecting points over a white base. The white spaces left by the checked pattern are decorated alternatingly with four-petal rosettes and stylized fruit motifs colored with dark blue color.