Curtain Panel

Description

This curtain was made to hang in designer Gavin Morton’s own home. Family tradition holds that it was designed by Charles Francis Annesley Voysey as a gift to the Mortons, but modern scholars believe it to be the work of Morton himself. Regardless of who designed the curtain panel, its pastel flowers on a translucent background would have glowed beautifully in the sunlight when hung in front of a window.

Provenance

Spink & Son, London, by Oct. 1, 1990 [Invoice Oct. 1, 1990 and Mar. 13, 1991; incoming permanent receipt RX18652, Nov. 1, 1990; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1991.

Curtain Panel

Charles Francis Annesley Voysey

c. 1910

Accession Number

121995

Medium

Cotton, plain weave foundation with supplementary weft patterning

Dimensions

292.4 × 121.2 cm (115 1/8 × 47 3/4 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 82 cm (32 1/4 in.)

Classification

textile

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment