Elenhank Designers, Inc.
Forest
1976
Scroll
Elenhank Designers, Inc.
Forest
1976
Physical Qualities
Linen, 137 3/4 x 56 in. (349.9 x 142.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Textile Acquisition Fund
Object Number
2011.85
A screen-printed panel of linen fabric depicting a scenic design of tall trees in a forest receding into the distance. The scene includes small bright red flowers with foliage at the bottom front, with tall white tree trunks growing out of the ground and arching into a canopy at the top. Burgundy red trees behind these trunks recede into the distance. The scene is printed in gold, "Mahogany red" - i.e. maroon or burgundy red, coral or orange-red, and white on a natural ground. The central panel with the design (one repeat) measures 106-1/2 inches and 47" wide with approximately 9 inches of unprinted natural colored linen divided unevenly between the selvage sides. [Note: The repeat measures 109" per dealer.] This fabric panel has a section of unprinted linen at the top measuring approx. 8-3/4" long and across the width of the textile joined at a seam. It has an additional section approximately 20-1/2" long by 48-1/2" wide attached at the bottom. This last piece has an overcast edge on one side and a selvage on the other. However, the selvage is not like that of the main body, which has a weft "fringe" of only 1/8" or so. These additions to the main length were probably used for attaching to some display device.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2011; Cora Ginsburg, LLC; Eleanor and Henry Kluck Family Archives
Christa C. Mayer Thurman, Rooted in Chicago: fifty Years of Textile Design Traditions, Museum Studies, The Art Institute of Chicago, vol. 23, no. 1, 1997, pp. 42-48, 76-96, plates pp. 72-79.
Inscribed: Printed on selvage: "hand print by ELENHANK DESIGNERS, Inc. ©"
