The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 18, 2024
Birds and Flowers Textile
c. 1925
designed by
(British, 1857–1941)
manufacturer
(British)
Overall: 317.5 x 80 cm (125 x 31 1/2 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1926.561
Location: not on view
Description
Familiar designs by Arts and Crafts architect C. F. A. Voysey were still popular in the 1920s. The Cleveland Museum of Art acquired this colorful textile in 1926 from a traveling exhibition of works from the 1925 Paris exposition.- 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. 139Coffin, Sarah, Stephen Harrison, and Emily Marshall Orr. The jazz age: American style in the 1920s. 2017. p. 167, 171, 369
- The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30, 2017-January 14, 2018).Transitions: 19th and Early 20th Century French and English Textiles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 3-November 16, 1986).Design in Printed Textiles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 7-September 3, 1961).International Exposition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Art, Paris, 1925.
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1926.561