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Collection Online as of April 18, 2024

Abstract Design

Abstract Design

c. 1926
designed by

Gregory Brown

(British, 1887–1941)
manufacturer

Foxton, Ltd.

(British)
England, 20th century
hand block printed on linen
Overall: 366.4 x 128.3 cm (144 1/4 x 50 1/2 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1926.563
Location: not on view

Description

This textile reflects the abstracted patterning popular in Vienna before the First World War and persisting into the early 1920s. After its inclusion in the 1925 Paris exposition, this panel traveled with the subsequent exhibition of works from the fair and was acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art 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. 146 (?)
    Coffin, Sarah, Stephen Harrison, and Emily Marshall Orr. The jazz age: American style in the 1920s. 2017. Reproduced: cat. 49, p. 330
  • The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY (April 7-August 20, 2017); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30, 2017-January 14, 2018).
    International Exposition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Art, March 1926--Organized by the American Association of Museums; the exhibition was in Paris in 1925 and in Cleveland in March 1926.
  • {{cite web|title=Abstract Design|url=false|author=Gregory Brown, Foxton, Ltd.|year=c. 1926|access-date=18 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1926.563