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Collage, Textile Design: Arabesque, no. 135
This is a Collage. It was designed by Alexander Hayden Girard and from the office of Herman Miller Furniture Company. It is dated May 9, 1954 and we acquired it in 2000. Its medium is colored paper, ballpoint pen, color pencil, graphite on blueprint. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
With a sharp eye for color combinations, architect and designer Alexander Girard presents neutral and brilliant colorways for his textile designs on these color cards, indicating how the colors are to be used in the pattern. Girard painted his own papers before collaging them, controlling all aspects of a color’s representation.
This object was
donated by
Alexander Hayden Girard.
It is credited Gift of Alexander H. Girard.
- Collage, Textile Design: Pattern Series no. 130
- colored paper, ballpoint pen, color pencil, graphite on blueprint.
- Gift of Alexander H. Girard.
- 1969-165-251
- Drawing, Facade for Proposed Cottage for Kirk Wilkinson, Wellfleet, MA
- brush and black ink, crayons on paper.
- Gift of Serge Ivan Chermayeff.
- 1962-45-2
- Sample Plate (England)
- glazed porcelain.
- Museum purchase from Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund.
- 2003-5-1
Our curators have highlighted 6 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Sample Plate (Denmark)
- moulded and glazed porcelain, with enamelled color.
- Museum purchase from Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund.
- 2003-5-4
- Drawing, Vegetation Proposal for Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY
- graphite, color pencil, pen and black ink on tracing paper.
- Gift of Michael Van Valkenburgh.
- 2018-13-2
- Sample Plate (France)
- glazed earthenware.
- Museum purchase from Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund.
- 2003-5-5
Its dimensions are
21.6 x 39.7 cm (8 1/2 x 15 5/8 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in ballpoint pen, upper left: Orinoka Pattern 8464; in graphite, verso upper left corner: III-3
Cite this object as
Collage, Textile Design: Arabesque, no. 135; Designed by Alexander Hayden Girard (American, 1907–1993); Office of Herman Miller Furniture Company (United States); colored paper, ballpoint pen, color pencil, graphite on blueprint; 21.6 x 39.7 cm (8 1/2 x 15 5/8 in.); Gift of Alexander H. Girard; 1969-165-252
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color.
