Cray

Description

Cray was the most complex of the large-scale designs named for rivers in that it required 34 printing blocks—more than any other. The two examples of Cray in the collection [1974.419a and 2018.827] appear to have been made with different sets of printing blocks, as the size of the pattern is slightly different in length and width.

Provenance

Haslam & Whiteway, London, by 2007; sold to Crab Tree Farm Foundation, Lake Bluff, IL, Sept. 6, 2007 [Crab Tree Farm Foundation catalog record; copy in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

Cray

Morris & Co.

Design 1884, made 1884–1917

Accession Number

249114

Medium

Block printed cotton

Dimensions

142.9 × 94.6 cm (56 1/4 × 37 1/4 in.); Repeat: 92 × 45 cm (36 1/4 × 17 3/4 in.)

Classification

printed textile

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Crab Tree Farm Foundation