Carpet Tacks (Fabric design for Stehli Silks)
Artist
Stehli Silk Mill
(American, 1897 - 1954)
Dateca. 1927
MediumSilk
DimensionsApproximate: 18 1/2 × 35 inches (46.99 × 88.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.2198
Signednone
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
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DescriptionBlack and white silk fabric with criss-crossed lines of light and dark, based on the Steichen photograph "Carpet Tacks" (2005.27.2197)Exhibition HistoryPhotographic Abstraction. Utah State University, Logan, UT, Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, Fine Art Center/Cheekwood, Nashville, TN, Montgomery Museum of Art, AL, January - September 1987, no cat.
American Art Deco: Designing for the People, 1918-1939, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, July 9 2022-January 8 2023, no cat.
Purchased from the artist by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1969;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Copyright© The Estate of Edward Steichen / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Edward Steichen
1926; printed ca. 1960
2005.27.2197