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Drawing, Textile Design: Rectangular and Triangular Shapes in Perspective
This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1928 and we acquired it in 1971. Its medium is black chalk on cream tracing paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Reminiscent of skyscrapers and the concentric angles associated with Art Deco, Max Forrer’s textile design is both abstract and evocative. The drawing is signed with Forrer’s name and stamped with his studio address in Paris. A second stamp indicates the manufacturer: The Orinoka Mills, whose showroom at 183 Madison Avenue, New York, was located in the heart of the "Silk District" in a building that featured Art Deco ironwork by Edgar Brandt.
It is credited Gift of Orinoka Mills.
- Textile, Americana Print: Manhattan
- silk.
- Gift of Marian Hague.
- 1937-1-4
- Textile, Parachutes
- silk.
- Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf.
- 1953-108-3
- Drawing, Study for Maximum Mass Permitted by the 1916 New York Zoning Law,...
- black crayon, stumped; brush and black ink over photostat, varnish on....
- Gift of Mrs. Hugh Ferriss.
- 1969-137-2
Our curators have highlighted 9 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Border (France)
- machine printed on paper.
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- painted and gilded wood.
- Collection of John C. Waddell.
- 53.2016.1
- Poster, Summer Sale at Derry & Toms
- lithograph.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-16
Its dimensions are
H x W: 43.3 x 36.2 cm (17 1/16 x 14 1/4 in.) H x W (Mat): 71.1 × 55.9 cm (28 × 22 in.)
It has the following markings
Verso, stamped in ink, lower left: MAX FORRER/DESSINS/12/PARIS.; stamped in ink, lower right: The Orinoka Mills/183 Madison Avenue/New York
It is signed
Signed in graphite, lower right: Max Forrer
Cite this object as
Drawing, Textile Design: Rectangular and Triangular Shapes in Perspective; France; black chalk on cream tracing paper; H x W: 43.3 x 36.2 cm (17 1/16 x 14 1/4 in.) H x W (Mat): 71.1 × 55.9 cm (28 × 22 in.); Gift of Orinoka Mills; 1971-57-7
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s and Making Design.
