André Marty and Scheurer, Lauth & Cie
La Vie au Grand Air
1924
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Cotton, panels joined: 78 1/2 × 103 1/2 in. (199.4 × 262.9 cm.); each panel: 78 1/2 × 51 3/4 in. (199.4 × 131.4 cm.);
Credit Line
Purchased as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Newhall III, Owings Mills, Maryland; and Dorothy McIlvain Scott, Baltimore, in Memory of The Honorable Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr.
Object Number
2000.383.1-2
The two rectangular panels are light greenish-grey plain woven cotton (Schumacher listed them as 'percale'), printed in three shades of greenish-grey and white. They depict outdoor life of the present time (1920's). Panel (a.) shows a sail boat and motor boat with two women and a man, as well as two young girls playing in the grass under a tree. A biplane flies overhead. Panel (b.) is simply landscape with trees. The patterns of each panel take up the entire surface, with no repeats, with the exception of a 1" border on all sides. The side edges are selvages and the top and bottom edges are cut.
Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2000; Cora Ginsburg LLC.
Rotation, Jean and Allan Berman Textile Gallery, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Great Lengths," October 27, 2010-April 17, 2011.
Anita Jones, Jean and Allan Berman Textile Gallery, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'La Vie Au Grand Air,' December 19, 2001-June 12, 2002.
Anita Jones, Jean and Allan Berman Textile Gallery, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'La Vie Au Grand Air,' December 19, 2001-June 12, 2002.
