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Sidewall (USA)
This is a sidewall. It was made by M.H. Birge & Sons Co.. It is dated 1890–1920 and we acquired it in 1971. Its medium is machine-printed paper. It is a part of the Wallcoverings department.
Author Gertrude Crownfield (American, 1867–1945), Crownfield’s younger sister, took great pains to safeguard her sister’s legacy after her death in 1929. Sophia Crownfield didn’t patent any of her designs for M. H. Birge & Sons, and the company never acknowledged her as one of their designers. On her gouache design of forsythia branches on a trellis, Gertrude added the text “Used by Birge Co.” The Birge wallpaper frieze to the right shows how a Crownfield design might have appeared in its finished form.
This object was
donated by
Philadelphia Museum of Art.
It is credited Gift of Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 54 × 49.8 cm (21 1/4 × 19 5/8 in.)
Cite this object as
Sidewall (USA); Made by M.H. Birge & Sons Co. (United States); machine-printed paper; H x W x D: 54 × 49.8 cm (21 1/4 × 19 5/8 in.); Gift of Philadelphia Museum of Art; 1971-58-11
