Water-lily textile
Cheney Brothers|Associated Artists
1883–1900 · Silk, woven and printed · The American Wing
In the late 1870s, Louis C. Tiffany collaborated with textile designer Candace Wheeler to form an artistic decorating business known as Louis C. Tiffany & Company, Associated Artists. Within a few years, Wheeler branched out and established her own textile enterprise, known simply as the Associated Artists. The design of undulating vines, leaves, and blossoms of water-lilies on this fabric sample exemplifies the firm’s line of "shadow silks," a type of textile where the pattern is only printed on the warp threads. This technique was praised in an 1885 issue of Art Amateur for its ability to render "a sense of life and motion, with gradations of color instead of light and shade."
- Artist
- Cheney Brothers|Associated Artists
- Date
- 1883–1900
- Medium
- Silk, woven and printed
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Boudinot Keith, 1928
