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Diana with Animals

Tom Lamb and DuPont Rayon Company

Diana with Animals

1924

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Diana with Animals

1924

Physical Qualities Linen, 99 × 35 1/2 in. (251.5 × 90.2 cm.)
Credit Line The Jane and Worth B. Daniels, Jr. Fund
Object Number 2003.57
A length of printed textile yard goods consisting of plain-woven white linen featuring black silhouettes of the goddess Diana with drawn bow, a gazelle pierced by her arrow, her hound, and other gazelles or deer, all scattered within curling and "corkscrew" lines representing ironwork. The design is "in the style of" contemporary Art Deco artists such as William Hunt Diederich, Paul Manship, and Edgar Brandt. [see Museum of Fine Arts, Boston catalog.] Both sides of the fabric are selvages. The top and bottom edges were originally cut and unfinished, but have sinced been hemmed to allow for exhibition. (Hem 1-1/2" at bottom and top casing 2-3/4" created for exhibition purposes by Louise Wheatley. See Conservation report.)
Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2003; Giles Kotcher, Antique Costume and Textiles, Somerville, Massachusetts, by purchase; Private dealer, Maryland.
Anita Jones, Jean and Allan Berman Textile Gallery, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Great Lengths," October 27,2010-April 17, 2011.

Inscribed: None

Markings: None

Designer

Tom Lamb

1895–1987

American, 1896-1988
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Manufacturer

DuPont Rayon Company

1924–1935

Buffalo, New York, 1925-1936
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