The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 25, 2024

Floral Textile

Floral Textile

1925
designed by

Constance Irving

(British)
manufacturer

Foxton, Ltd.

(British)
England, 20th century
cretonne; machine roller printed
Overall: 351.8 x 78.7 cm (138 1/2 x 31 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1926.560
Location: not on view

Description

Recalling earlier Renaissance patterns, this furnishing fabric by Constance Irving for the British firm Foxton was among those exhibited at the 1925 Paris exposition and shown in the resulting museum exhibition that toured America in 1926.
  • American Association of Museums. A Selected Collection of Objects from the International Exposition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Art at Paris 1925. [Washington, D.C.]: [American Association of Museums?], 1925. p. 17, no. 137
    Coffin, Sarah, Stephen Harrison, and Emily Marshall Orr. The jazz age: American style in the 1920s. 2017. p. 167, 349
  • The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30, 2017-January 14, 2018).
    Art Deco. Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 6-August 1, 1971).
    Art Deco. Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH (June 6-August 1, 1971).
    Techniques of Textile Printing. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 11, 1948-May 29, 1949).
    International Exposition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Art, Paris, 1925.
  • {{cite web|title=Floral Textile|url=false|author=Constance Irving, Foxton, Ltd.|year=1925|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1926.560