Horizontally rectangular textile. Dark pink, light purple, and dark yellow brushstrokes curve throughout the textile, creating a dense background texture. Spread out throughout the textile are teal green elephants, spaced evenly across three horizontally rectangular rows.

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	We acquired this object.
1924	Work on this object began.
2017	We photographed this object. We exhibited this object.
2024	You found it!

Object ID #907216325

This is a Textile. It was manufactured by Bianchini-Férier, Inc.. It is dated 1924. Its medium is patterned weave, jacquard loom; silk.

Elephants, sea creatures, and other natural elements not native to France or the United States, seen in these textiles designed by Raoul Dufy for Bianchini-Férier, suggest the widening design sources invoked not only in textiles but by designers in general in the 1920s.

It is credited Lent by The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1926.557.

Textile, Fruits of Africa

Textile, Fruits of Africa
cotton.
Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund.
1934-14-3

Textile, La Moisson (The Thresher)

Textile, La Moisson (The Thresher)
cotton warp, linen weft.
Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund.
1934-14-1

Fragment, La Jungle

Fragment, La Jungle
cotton.
Gift of Mary Halle.
1989-74-1

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Drawing, Textile Design: Tropical Flowers

Drawing, Textile Design: Tropical Flowers
printed proof, six colors with graphite oultine of repeat.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment and Friends of Drawings....
1985-50-6

A subdued silk screen-printed textile panel with a black ground that pops with vibrantly-colored, repeating vertical rows of stylized, magenta and mauve and lemon and orange round flowers, possibly sweet williams or phlox, which are accented by smaller floral varieties in blue, mauve, yellow, and orange, with sage green stems and leaves. The linear floral arrangements undulate horizontally with movement and are crossed vertically with columned trellises that are weaving with tumbling, carnation-like orange and yellow flowers, such that a repeating grid, quilt-like pattern is formed, whereby each floral square repeats twenty times.

Object ID #907130243
silk, twill weave; screen printed.
Lent by The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Robert Allerton, 1924.184.
34.2016.5

Its dimensions are

L x W: 251.8 × 96.8 cm (8 ft. 3 1/8 in. × 38 1/8 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2oaHNM/
Accession Number 48.2016.17
Object ID 907216325