Not on display

Over All

Tapestry Design
1966/1967 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Edinburgh Tapestry Company Ltd (designed for)
Cohen, Harold (artist)
Place of origin
Scotland (designed)

Preliminary study for a tapestry design.

Object details

Categories
Textiles
Designs
Object type
Tapestry design
TitleOver All
Materials and techniques
oil painting on canvas
Oil Paint
Canvas
Painted
Brief description
Harold Cohen. "Over All". Preliminary study for a design for a tapestry, c.1966/1967, made by Edinburgh Tapestry Co. Oil on canvas.
Physical description
Preliminary study for a tapestry design.
Dimensions
  • Height: 32cm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1968)
  • Width: 41cm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1968)
Gallery label
The artist now gave the weavers a sample of the design he was hoping to use, with a regular grid-pattern of flat-coloured discs superimposed over two types of elaborately modulated ground - one of delicately graduated colour, the other involving irregular formal shapes.
Credit line
Acquired from the Artist in 1968.
Associated objects
Bibliographic reference
Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1968
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
CIRC.396-1968

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
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