Necktie

A. Sulka & Company

ca. 1978 · silk · Costume Institute

This tie represents a quintessential Optical Art design with flat black and white forms manipulated to appear three dimensional. Optical Art originated with the Bauhaus in 1919 but saw resurgence in the mid-1960s and disseminated throughout the following decades. A. Sulka & Company's use of this style of art is indicative of its popularity.

Artist

A. Sulka & Company

Date

ca. 1978

Medium

silk

Culture

American

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Milton F. Rosenthal, 1985