Textile Design with Large Stylized White and Yellow Flowers over a Pink Checked Background

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 branches of dark reddish-brown color with large stylized flowers with white petals and yellow pistils and small round yellow flower buds over a glitched pink ground that stand out over a checked background. The checks are made up of intersecting pink lines framed by two thin dark reddish-brown stripes over a background of thin horizontal white and pink stripes. The intersections of the pink stripes that make the checked background are decorated with squares of dark reddish-brown color.