Panel (Drapery Fabric)

Textiles

c. 1950

Designed by Else Regensteiner (American, born Germany, 1906–2003) and Julia McVicker (American, 1906–1990)
Produced by reg/wick studio (American, 1945–1980)
United States, Illinois, Chicago

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Else Regensteiner (Designer)
Title: Panel (Drapery Fabric)
Place: United States (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.: Made 1940–1960
Medium: Cotton, rayon, and cotton and rayon bouclé and chenille, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts
Dimensions: 255.1 × 124 cm (100 1/2 × 48 3/4 in.); Repeat: 3 × 1.2 cm (1/8 × 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Else Regensteiner and estate of Julia McVicker
Reference Number: 1991.580

Christa C. Mayer Thurman, “Rooted in Chicago: Fifty Years of Textile Design Traditions,” published in conjunction with the exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 23, 1 (1997): 58 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Rooted in Chicago: Fifty Years of Textile Design Traditions, Feb. 12–July 27, 1997, cat.

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