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Coverlet, "Electric" Pattern
This is a Coverlet, "Electric" Pattern. It was designed by Ruth Reeves and retailed by W. and J. Sloane. Its medium is cotton.
Reeves’s electric pattern exhibited by W. & J. Sloane in 1930, combines influences of Cubism from her studies in Paris with the impact and energy of electric waves. This length was made into a coverlet for the bed that Reeves designed for the Long Beach, Long Island, house of Louise and Glendon Allvine, who also acquired a screen by Donald Deskey.
- Proof For Scarf (USA)
- silk.
- Gift of Mrs. William R. Bullard, Jr..
- 1996-48-1
- Textile, Manhattan, 1930
- linen.
- Lent by Yale University Art Gallery, John P. Axelrod Collection, B.A. 1968,....
- 65.2016.7
- Drawing, Preliminary Sketch for "West Point" from the Hudson River Series
- brush and gouache, crayon, graphite on tracing paper.
- Gift of Donald Deskey.
- 1988-101-1503
Our curators have highlighted 2 objects that are related to this one.
- Textile, Sawtooth
- linen.
- Museum purchase through gift of Frederick Rathbone.
- 1949-13-1
- Screen, Study in Cubist Realism
- oil paint on wood panel, california redwood and black lacquer.
- Denver Art Museum, Lent by Grant and Betty Hagestad, 43.2009.
- 56.2016.1
"Handful of Keys," Fats Waller (1929)
The Ruth Reeves Electric coverlet seemed evocative of the Fats Waller recording “Handful of Keys” from 1929. The recording is a remarkable tour-de-force by Waller. Waller also performed this...
http://www.folkways.si.edu/fats-waller/handful-of-keys/jazz-ragtime/music/track/smithsonian
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.
