- Artist or Maker
- Bernard Kester
United States, Utah, Salt Lake City, active California, Los Angeles, 1928-2018 - Title
- Textile Length, "Strand"
- Date Made
- circa 1962
- Medium
- Screenprinted cotton
- Dimensions
- 100 x 55 in. (254 x 139.7 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2010.58.1
- Collecting Area
- Costume and Textiles
- Curatorial Notes
Bernard Kester is a textile designer and ceramist who taught in the art department at UCLA from 1956 to 1993. His lively, vivid textile designs, such as Strand, often incorporated abstract patterns and biomorphic motifs. In his career as an exhibition designer, Kester was responsible for the California Design installations at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1968, 1971, and 1976. For more than forty-five years, he also designed exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
(California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way," 2011-12)
- Selected Bibliography
- Kaplan, Wendy, ed. California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011.
- Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Living in a Modern Way: California Design, 1930-1965. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013.
- Selected Exhibition History
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 20, 2013 - June 3, 2013
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". July 6, 2013 - September 29, 2013
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". November 2, 2013 - February 9, 2014
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 29, 2014 - July 6, 2014
- Copyright
- © Bernard Kester
