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Elza Sunderland
Textile Design, 'Mexican Pottery'1939

Not on view
Painting with repeating folk-style ceramic vessels in red, blue, green, and white scattered across a flat cadmium-yellow background, decorated with birds, flowers, and geometric patterns

Elza Sunderland, Textile Design, 'Mexican Pottery', 1939, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Elza Sunderland Textile Design Collections, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Designer
Elza Sunderland
Hungary, active United States, California, Los Angeles, 1903-1991
Title
Textile Design, 'Mexican Pottery'
Place Made
United States, California
Date Made
1939
Medium
Gouache on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 29 x 23 in. (73.6 x 58.4 cm); Composition: 22 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. (57.2 x 47 cm)
Credit Line
Elza Sunderland Textile Design Collections
Accession Number
M.85.175.140
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
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
Copyright
© Casey Sunderland

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