"Cirque" Designer: Betty Roemer Clowes (American, born 1926)
Manufacturer: J. H. Thorp and Company, Inc (American, founded 1819)

ca. 1950

American Decorative Arts

Not on view

From the late 1930s to the 1950s, the Museum of Modern Art, in New York, held a series of exhibitions that highlighted excellence in modern design. Some of these included textiles by J. H. Thorp and Company, Inc., a New York–based manufacturer held in high regard at the time. This fabric, designed by Betty Roemer Clowes and produced by the company, features clown figures amid green lines that evoke the ropes and ladders inside a circus tent. The subject matter suggests that the textile was intended to decorate children’s rooms.

Medium

Serigraph print on cotton

Dimensions

108 × 50 in. (274.3 × 127 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of J. H. Thorp & Co., Inc.

Accession Number

1950.753

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Textiles

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Provenance
J. H. Thorp and Company, Inc., New Yokr; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1950
Object copyright
Copyright Undetermined
Additional information

Subject

Women designers

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