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Object Timeline

1953	Work on this object began.
1954	We acquired this object.
2013	We photographed this object.
2024	You found it!

Sidewall, Garden Flowers

This is a sidewall. It was manufactured by Wilton E. Owen, Inc.. It is dated 1953 and we acquired it in 1954. Its medium is screen printed. It is a part of the Wallcoverings department.

It is credited Gift of The Wallpaper Magazine.

Here we have two sculptures of a green plant and its growing stages sharing one base stand. The front piece has a large seed pod shaped like a giant flower bud. The pod is opening at the top with two thick, bumpy stems emerging and curling outward. Behind it is a horizontal stem with large black spots and patches of wispy hairs attached to a base. From the horizontal stem a bundle of green pods resembling peppers are encased by an rectangular shell of leaves, as if they were protecting the green pods and are, at last, opening.

Model, Juglans Regia
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.8

This is a sculpture of a green plant attached to a base. The plant resembles a giant inward-curling leaf, and where it's primarily green, it also has red stems and veins. A-symmetrically shaped, the model curves upward to an opening at the top; along the side of the plant is a single leaf sticking out, as if it is excess after it had curled inward on itself. The top of the plant has an opening that leads to a encased, bulging center.

Model, Sarracenia Purpurea
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.9

Here we have a white flower in bloom from a green stem. The purple style made of rounded triangles pokes up from the center, surrounded by five white petals. The opened petlas have a small, curling spikes on their surface. The green stem is thick and has rounded triangular leaves and is attached to the base.

Model, Menyanthes Trifoliate
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.11

Its dimensions are

89.5 x 76 cm (35 1/4 x 29 15/16 in.)

Cite this object as

Sidewall, Garden Flowers; Manufactured by Wilton E. Owen, Inc.; USA; screen printed; 89.5 x 76 cm (35 1/4 x 29 15/16 in.); Gift of The Wallpaper Magazine; 1953-198-7

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2ChUM/
Accession Number 1953-198-7
Object ID 18397413