Thomas Lamb
Further images
Screen-printed linen/rayon designed by the industrial designer and children's book illustrator Thomas Babbit Lamb (1896–1988). With an Art Deco design silhouetted in black on white with stylized leaping antelope, dogs, and Diana figures amid scrolling leafy brackets. The composition inspired by the ironwork of William Diedrich Hunt and the sculptures of Paul Manship; Lamb’s likeness in linen is in fact a near mirror image of Manship’s iconic bronze of the goddess Diana that was first produced in 1921.
Illustrated in Louise Bonney, "Our spring fabric fashion parade," The American Home (May 1930): p. 188; and Fanelli, Il Tessuto Art Deco e Anni Trenta (1986); fig. 310.
Panels are at Baltimore Museum of Art (2003.57); Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (2003-7-2); MFA Boston (2003.309); LACMA and St. Louis Art Museum (27:2016), sold by Cora Ginsburg LLC.
See related designs by Lamb from ca. 1924 for handkerchiefs depicting deer and greyhounds, in the Thomas Lamb papers at Hagley Museum and Library, Manuscripts and Archives Department.
Exhibitions
A panel of this textile was exhibited in "The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s," Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, April 7–August 20, 2017.
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