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Essex Hunt
Reeves, Ruth, born 1892 - died 1967 - Enlarge image
Essex Hunt
- Object:
Furnishing fabric
- Place of origin:
New York, USA (made)
- Date:
1930 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Reeves, Ruth, born 1892 - died 1967 (designer)
W.&J. Sloane (maker) - Materials and Techniques:
Printed cotton
- Credit Line:
Given by W.&J. Sloane
- Museum number:
T.58-1932
- Gallery location:
Twentieth Century, room 74, case 3C
This printed cotton and monk’s cloth furnishing fabric was designed by Ruth Reeves (1892-1966) for W. & J. Sloane in 1930. Reeves trained with Fernand Léger (1881-1955) during the 1920s and was influenced by his Cubist paintings. She produced a wide range of printed and woven fabrics, mainly depicting modern life in America. Her most widely acknowledged commission was for the carpets in Radio City Music Hall in New York.
‘Essex Hunt’ shows alternating scenes of a house at the opening of a meet with hounds in a semicircle around a group of figures on the doorstep and the hunt in full cry. Both scenes are framed by foliage.
