Evening ensemble
Arnold Scaasi
fall/winter 1959–60 · silk · Costume Institute
The tradition of Renaissance textiles, known from extant textiles and particularly from their representation in Renaissance painting, offered a rich convergence of East and West and sumptuous floral pattern. Renewed textile grandeur in the 1950s returned many abstracting floral designs to favor.
- Artist
- Arnold Scaasi
- Date
- fall/winter 1959–60
- Medium
- silk
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Costume Institute
- Credit line
- Gift of Miss Gillis MacGil, 1961
