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Coverlet, "Electric" Pattern

This is a Coverlet, "Electric" Pattern. It was designed by Ruth Reeves and retailed by W. and J. Sloane. Its medium is cotton.

Reeves’s electric pattern exhibited by W. & J. Sloane in 1930, combines influences of Cubism from her studies in Paris with the impact and energy of electric waves. This length was made into a coverlet for the bed that Reeves designed for the Long Beach, Long Island, house of Louise and Glendon Allvine, who also acquired a screen by Donald Deskey.

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  • Textile, Manhattan, 1930
  • linen.
  • Lent by Yale University Art Gallery, John P. Axelrod Collection, B.A. 1968,....
  • 65.2016.7

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We have 1 media file that features Coverlet, "Electric" Pattern.

"Handful of Keys," Fats Waller (1929)

The Ruth Reeves Electric coverlet seemed evocative of the Fats Waller recording “Handful of Keys” from 1929. The recording is a remarkable tour-de-force by Waller. Waller also performed this...

http://www.folkways.si.edu/fats-waller/handful-of-keys/jazz-ragtime/music/track/smithsonian

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

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