Girafters (Furnishing Fabric)

Textiles

1965 (produced and reprinted 1988)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artists: Ben Rose (Designer) , Ben Rose, Inc. (Producer)
Title: Girafters (Furnishing Fabric)
Places: Chicago (Object designed in), United States (Object made in)
Dates: Designed 1965 , Reprinted 1988
Medium: Modacrylic and rayon, plain weave; screen printed
Inscriptions: Inscription (stamped on selvage): Ben Rose Hand Print-1949 Reprinted-1988
Dimensions: 277 × 125.9 cm (109 × 49 1/2 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 76.1 cm (30 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Rose
Reference Number: 1989.225.6

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): 62 (ill.).

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.
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.

Ben Rose (1916-2004) and Frances Rose (born Landrum), Highland Park, IL, from 1988 [incoming receipt RX17789, Apr. 24, 1989; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

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