Passaic Print Works
The so-called “Lindbergh Toile” celebrating the 1927 transatlantic flight of Charles Lindbergh, from the New York firm Witcombe McGeachin & Co., and designed by an otherwise little-known English-born textile designer, Harry Hurbert Kuenemann (1861–1953). The portrait of Lindbergh after his New York Times studio portrait (1927); printed by Passaic Print Works in New Jersey and distributed by Witcombe, McGeachin & Co., Inc.
Panels in carious colorways include those at the Allentown Art Museum (1988.026.000); Art Institute of Chicago (1988.461); Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (1932-11-13, 1935-8-1, 1968-135-142); Goldstein Museum of Design (1994.023.001); MFA Boston (1990.292); Minneapolis Institute of Art (96.20); New York Historical (1941.443); Philadelphia Museum of Art (1952-64-31); St. Louis Art Museum (36:2017); Winterthur Museum (1979.0058.085); and Yale University Art Gallery.
Small stain at upper right. Otherwise good condition.
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