Carpet Panel for Radio City Music Hall

Provenance

Giles Kotcher, Sommerville, MA, by June 26, 1997 [Invoice, Nov. 24, 1997; incoming receipt RX21669, June 26, 1997; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997.

Carpet Panel for Radio City Music Hall

Ruth Reeves

1932 (produced 1950s/70s)

Accession Number

149637

Medium

Cotton, acrylic, and jute, plain weave with supplementary backing wefts and supplementary pile wefts forming cut solid pile; edges bound with cotton, 2:2 twill weave tape; machine woven

Dimensions

120.8 × 88.6 cm (47 1/2 × 34 7/8 in.)

Classification

weaving - carpet

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Elizabeth M. Schultz Endowment