Pilz (Mushroom) (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

Provenance

Barry Friedman, New York, by Dec. 4, 1990 [incoming receipt RX18704, Dec. 4, 1990; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1991.

Pilz (Mushroom) (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

Johann Backhausen und Söhne

c. 1902

Accession Number

152978

Medium

Cotton, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment

Dimensions

51.8 × 88.9 cm (20 3/8 × 35 in.); Repeat: 9.3 × 10.2 cm (3 5/8 × 4 in.)

Classification

textile

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Robert Allerton Endowment