Bamako (Furnishing Fabric)

Textiles

1960 (produced 1962/63)

Designed by Charles Edmund (Ed) Rossbach (American, 1914-2002)
Produced by Jack Lenor Larsen, Inc. (American, 1952-1997)
New York, United States

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Ed Rossbach (Designer)
Title: Bamako (Furnishing Fabric)
Place: New York (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Designed 1960
Medium: Linen and silk, warp printed; plain weave
Dimensions: 214.8 × 85.7 cm (84 5/8 × 33 5/8 in.); Weft repeat: H.: 57.2 cm (22 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Ed Rossbach
Reference Number: 1985.750

Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1985-86): 36, 77 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1993), 241 (ill.).
Christa C. Mayer Thurman, Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), 133, 149 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Designed by the Yard: 20th Century Pattern Repeats, Feb. 28, 1990–June 25, 1990.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Textile Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago’s Collection, Feb. 17–May 2, 1993.

The artist, Berkeley, CA [corresponence from Ed Rossebach, June 20, 1984; July 5, 1984; and Apr. 11, 1985; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1985.

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