"Americana Prints: Inca" Textile
Falls was best known as a book illustrator and poster designer, gaining fame during World War I for posters supporting the military. This unusual design is based on tocapu (coded geometric designs) found on tunics woven by the Inca people. It was likely inspired by textiles in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, which beginning in 1915, opened their ethnographic collection to textile designers as a source of inspiration.
Artwork Details
- Title: "Americana Prints: Inca" Textile
- Designer: Charles Buckles Falls (American, Fort Wayne, Indiana 1874–1960 New York)
- Manufacturer: Stehli Silks Corporation (Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1897–1953)
- Date: 1925 (Series I, released spring 1926)
- Medium: Printed silk
- Dimensions: 36 x 40 in. (91.4 x 101.6 cm)
- Classification: Textiles-Printed
- Credit Line: Gift of Stehli Silks Corp., 1927
- Object Number: 27.150.6
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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