Silkkikuikka (Great Crested Grebe) (Furnishing Fabric)

Textiles

1961

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artists: Maija Isola (Designer) , Marimekko Oy (Producer)
Title: Silkkikuikka (Great Crested Grebe) (Furnishing Fabric)
Places: Helsinki (Object made in), Finland (Object made in), Scandinavia (Object made in), Europe (Object made in)
Date: Patented 1961
Medium: Cotton, plain weave; screen printed
Inscriptions: Inscription (on right selvage): © MARIMEKKO OY 1961 SUOMI FINLAND / MARIMEKKO © MAIJA ISOLA "SILKKIKUIKKA"
Dimensions: 336 × 137.9 cm (132 1/4 × 54 1/4 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 251.7 cm (99 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Marimekko, Inc.
Reference Number: 1980.134

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Designed by the Yard: 20th Century Pattern Repeats, Feb. 28–June 25, 1990, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, European Decorative Arts, Gallery 50, Feb. 25, 2000-Feb. 22, 2001.

Marimekko, Inc., Elmsford, NY; offered to the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NY, before Dec. 31, 1979 [letter from Milton Sonday, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Dec. 31, 1979; given through Ilkka Kallioma, Marimekko, Inc.; incoming receipt RX12587, Apr. 3, 1980, in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1980.

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