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Anna Frances Connor Simpson
Table runnercirca 1910

Not on view
Woven linen table runner with plain sand-colored ground and a wide pictorial border depicting three spreading trees with drooping foliage against a golden yellow background
Embroidered linen table runner, lower portion visible, featuring a horizontal border with a landscape of stylized trees in muted purple, green, and yellow tones against a pale yellow sky, framed by a stitched geometric border on natural linen ground.

Anna Frances Connor Simpson, Newcomb College Pottery, Table runner, circa 1910, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Ellen and Max Palevsky, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Designer
Anna Frances Connor Simpson
United States, 1880-1930
Design House
Newcomb College Pottery
United States, Louisiana, New Orleans, 1895-1940
Title
Table runner
Place Made
United States
Date Made
circa 1910
Medium
Linen plain weave with cotton embroidery.
Dimensions
70 1/2 × 20 3/8 in. (179.07 × 51.75 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Ellen and Max Palevsky
Accession Number
AC1995.250.45
Classification
Textiles
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Kaplan, Wendy; contributions by Crawford, Alan; Joppien, Rüdiger; Kinchin, Juliet; Ogata, Amy F.; Stavenow-Hidemark, Elisabet; Witt-Dörring, Christian. The Arts & Crafts Movement in Europe & America. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2004.