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Title

Design Cloth

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Physical Description

Back in tan in color and textured with dark brown and lighter brown diamnd shapes. There are four sections and a long brown running stripe. All the edges are hemmed.

Object Creation Date

19th century - 20th century

Accession Number

2014/2.85

Medium and Support

raffia and pile cloth

relevance

rank 15.74963

Primary Keywords

geometric patterns

raffiawork

textile components

Title

Design Cloth

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Physical Description

Interlocking diamonds in beige and off-white. Tan hemmed edges.

Object Creation Date

19th century - 20th century

Accession Number

2014/2.94

Medium and Support

raffia and pile cloth

relevance

rank 15.74963

Primary Keywords

geometric patterns

raffiawork

textile components

Title

Design Cloth

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Physical Description

Tan background with dark brown and white trimmed diamond pattern throughout. The sides are all hemmed with a tan fabric.

Object Creation Date

19th century - 20th century

Accession Number

2014/2.87

Medium and Support

raffia and pile cloth

relevance

rank 15.74963

Primary Keywords

geometric patterns

raffiawork

textile components

Title

Design Cloth

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Physical Description

Tan background of four separate rectangles, hemmed edges throughout. One side is diamonds, one is an interlocking "V" pattern, one is joined diamonds and the other is "S" shapes pattern.

Object Creation Date

19th century - 20th century

Accession Number

2014/2.89

Medium and Support

raffia and pile cloth

relevance

rank 15.74963

Primary Keywords

geometric patterns

raffiawork

textile components

Title

Design Cloth

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Physical Description

Dark tan chevron stripes on a light tan background. The lighter tan is textured and is in a notched "V" pattern.

Object Creation Date

19th century - 20th century

Accession Number

2014/2.81

Medium and Support

raffia and pile cloth

relevance

rank 15.74963

Primary Keywords

geometric patterns

raffiawork

textile components

Title

Design Cloth

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Physical Description

Two pieces of fabric connected by a seam in the center. Two separate diamond patterns, both in dark brown and tan.

Object Creation Date

19th century - 20th century

Accession Number

2014/2.91

Medium and Support

raffia and pile cloth

relevance

rank 15.74963

Primary Keywords

geometric patterns

raffiawork

textile components

Title

Design Cloth

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Physical Description

Three panels, all the same background color sewn together. Interlocking triangles on both sides are dark brown and yellow diamonds in center mixed with brown.

Object Creation Date

19th century - 20th century

Accession Number

2014/2.84

Medium and Support

raffia and pile cloth

relevance

rank 15.74963

Primary Keywords

geometric patterns

raffiawork

textile components

Title

Design Cloth

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Physical Description

Tan with light beige and dark brown diamond design. Edges are hemmed in tan.

Object Creation Date

19th century - 20th century

Accession Number

2014/2.93

Medium and Support

raffia and pile cloth

relevance

rank 15.74963

Primary Keywords

geometric patterns

raffiawork

textile components

Title

Design Cloth

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Physical Description

Gold and tan in color, interlocking diamond shapes with grass fringe on the sides.

Object Creation Date

19th century - 20th century

Accession Number

2014/2.86

Medium and Support

raffia and pile cloth

relevance

rank 15.74963

Primary Keywords

geometric patterns

raffiawork

textile components

Title

Design Cloth

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Physical Description

Varying diamond and triangle patterns in tan and brown. Hemmed edge.

Object Creation Date

19th century - 20th century

Accession Number

2014/2.95

Medium and Support

raffia and pile cloth

relevance

rank 15.74963

Primary Keywords

geometric patterns

raffiawork

textile components

Title

Design Cloth

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Physical Description

Tan and dark brown design in four separate squares - interconnected forms, smaller horizontal diamonds, medium sized diamonds and large diamonds.

Object Creation Date

19th century - 20th century

Accession Number

2014/2.88

Medium and Support

raffia and pile cloth

relevance

rank 15.74963

Primary Keywords

geometric patterns

raffiawork

textile components

Title

Design Cloth

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Physical Description

Tan squares with interlocking multiple sized triangles. The edges are tan and hemmed.

Object Creation Date

19th century - 20th century

Accession Number

2014/2.90

Medium and Support

raffia and pile cloth

relevance

rank 15.74963

Primary Keywords

geometric patterns

raffiawork

textile components

Title

Design Cloth

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Physical Description

Dark brown rectangled with two rounded edges on one end. Interlocing triangles of tan and brown. Textured and braided designs.

Object Creation Date

19th century - 20th century

Accession Number

2014/2.83

Medium and Support

raffia and pile cloth

relevance

rank 15.74963

Primary Keywords

geometric patterns

raffiawork

textile components

Title

Design Cloth

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Physical Description

Background is dark brown and over the top is a large interlocking square pattern with smaller squares. The insides of the larger squares are half dark brown and half tan.

Object Creation Date

19th century - 20th century

Accession Number

2014/2.92

Medium and Support

raffia and pile cloth

relevance

rank 15.74963

Primary Keywords

geometric patterns

raffiawork

textile components

Title

Do yu Get it

Artist

Martin Johnson

Physical Description

7-sided frame made of reclaimed wood moulding and slats nailed together and backed with strips of green felt, possibly from a pool table. Gold wire traces the wood frame, and is accented with a fuzz ball or googly eye at each corner. A toy car is placed on the gold wire “track” at bottom center; car racing flag stickers attached to the frame in a couple places. Three pieces of thread are strung horizontally across the frame, a “spider web” attached to top two lines with puffy paint. A wood (?) cutout of a smiling joker mouth hung from web by wire.

Artist Life Dates

(1951 - )

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1996

Accession Number

2008/2.235

Medium and Support

mixed media consruction, paint, wood, wire, toy car

relevance

rank 13.05269

Primary Keywords

abstract imagist

assemblage (sculpture technique)

childhood

clowns

collage

eyes

found objects

mouths

pop

racetracks

racing cars

spiders

textile components

threading

toys (recreational artifacts)

wirework