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Carpet Tacks (Fabric design for Stehli Silks)
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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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Collections
DescriptionBlack and white silk fabric with criss-crossed lines of light and dark, based on the Steichen photograph "Carpet Tacks" (2005.27.2197)Exhibition History

Photographic 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.

Provenance
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.
Copyright© The Estate of Edward Steichen / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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