The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of June 25, 2022

The Silhouette Bird

1925

designed by

Take Sato

(British)

manufacturer

Foxton, Ltd.

(British)

England, 20th century

Hand block printed on linen

Overall: 361.9 x 128.3 cm (142 1/2 x 50 1/2 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1926.562

Location

not on view

Citations
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. 144
Coffin, Sarah, Stephen Harrison, and Emily Marshall Orr. The jazz age: American style in the 1920s. 2017. p. 362
Exhibition history

International Exposition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Art, Paris, 1925.

Exhibition of the Month: The Floral Motif in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29-September 30, 1947).

Techniques of Textile Printing. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 11, 1948-May 29, 1949).

The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30, 2017-January 14, 2018).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1926.562