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Object Timeline

1971

  • Work on this object began.

1972

  • Work on this object ended.

1992

  • We acquired this object.

1993

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2026

  • You found it!

Sidewall, Testura Grafica

This is a Sidewall. It is dated 1971–72 and we acquired it in 1992. Its medium is flexograph printed on ribbed paper. It is a part of the Wallcoverings department.

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This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Op Art for your Walls.

It is credited Museum purchase from Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Fund.

  • Sidewall, Razzmatazz
  • screenprinted and flocked on machine-made paper.
  • Gift of William Justema.
  • 1969-70-3
  • Textile, Nucleus
  • cotton.
  • Museum purchase from Friends of Textiles Fund.
  • 1978-102-1

Our curators have highlighted 4 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

  • Sidewall
  • machine-printed paper.
  • Gift of W. H. S. Lloyd Co., Inc..
  • 1930-18-1-i
  • Sidewall (England)
  • block-printed on handmade paper.
  • Gift of Brighton Art Gallery and Museum.
  • 1950-59-8

Its dimensions are

Platemark/repeat: 30 x 53 cm (11 13/16 x 20 7/8 in.)

Cite this object as

Sidewall, Testura Grafica; Germany; flexograph printed on ribbed paper; Platemark/repeat: 30 x 53 cm (11 13/16 x 20 7/8 in.); Museum purchase from Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Fund; 1992-110-7

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