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Series Title: Americana Prints

Pegs (No. 668)

c. 1927
designed by

Charles Buckles Falls

(American, 1874–1960)
manufacturer

Stehli Silks Corporation

(United States; Pennsylvania, Lancaster; and New York, New York, 1840–c. 1955)
Culture
America, New York
Medium
Silk: plain weave, roller printed
Measurements
Overall: 48.9 x 52.1 cm (19 1/4 x 20 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Stehli Silks Corporation 1928.587
Copyright
Copyright
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
234 Textile Gallery
Print

Description

This roller printed design from 1927 features three-dimensional gray pegs against a bright red ground. Charles Falls created this textile design to “simulate the effect of still-life photography through artful perspective drawing.” He also created several designs for Stehli Silks based on motifs from Maya and Incan art. Today, Falls’s printed silks are in collections in the United States and United Kingdom, including at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, as well as at Cleveland.
Square piece of red fabric patterned with rectangular pegs, scattered at different angles. The pegs are made to look three-dimensional as they narrow to a perspective point, the sides appearing different colors as if catching the light differently, changing between dark brown, beige, and grey-blue. In some areas, the pegs cluster closer while leaving brief points of uninterrupted red.

Pegs (No. 668)

c. 1927

Charles Buckles Falls, Stehli Silks Corporation

(American, 1874–1960), (United States; Pennsylvania, Lancaster; and New York, New York, 1840–c. 1955)
America, New York

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