Rockwell Kent
Roller-printed cotton/rayon by Rockwell Kent, "Harvest Time," with an asymmetrical composition with oversized green wheat sheaves standing on small islands with New England-style village in salmon, red, chartreuse, and khaki on white ground; green bird's nest with chicks on top of wheat sheaves and green birds swooping above with red worms in beaks; printed on selvage: "Saison Happily-Married Fabrics Vat Prints."
An identical length to this one is in the Saint Louis Art Museum. Other colorways are in the Baltimore Museum of Art (1992.300ab); Dallas Museum of Art (2011.318); Metropolitan Museum of Art (1995.295.1); the MFA, Boston (2001.652); and Philadelphia Museum of Art (1972.211.1). The drawing for "Harvest Time" is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Illustrated in Giles Kotcher, "American Modernist Textiles," The Echoes Report, Vol. 4, No. 2, Fall 1995, reprinted in Kent Collector, Summer 1996; Geoffrey Rayner, Artist-Designed Textiles, 1940-1976, 2012, p. 70, fig. 30. A panel was exhibited in "Artist Textiles: Picasso to Warhol," Fashion and Textile Museum, London, UK, January 31-May 18, 2014.
Excellent, unused condition.
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