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Ruth Reeves

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Rugs from the Crawford Shops designed by American Artists

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1937

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Ruth Reeves was an American textile designer and weaver whose abstract compositions translated modernist painting into woven and printed fabrics. Working from the 1920s onward, she developed a distinctive vocabulary of geometric and organic forms that bridged fine art and industrial design. Her work appeared in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and established her as a pioneering figure in American textile modernism during a period when the medium remained largely marginalized in fine art discourse.

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Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern ArtNew York

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Carpet Panel for Radio City Music Hall

1950 · Cotton, acrylic, and jute, plain weave with supplementary backing wefts and supplementary pile wefts forming cut solid pile; edges bound with cotton, 2:2 twill weave tape; machine woven

120.8 × 88.6 cm (47 1/2 × 34 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Scarf

1938 · silk

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Tailpiece (page 30) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

dia. plate 2 5/16" (5.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Plate (page 15) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

plate 7 3/8 x 5" (18.8 x 12.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Plate (page 9) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

plate 7 1/2 x 5" (19 x 12.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Plate (page 42) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

plate 7 7/16 x 5" (18.9 x 12.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Headpiece (page 1) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

plate 1 7/16 x 4 15/16" (3.7 x 12.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Plate (page 23) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

plate 7 7/16 x 4 15/16" (18.9 x 12.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Museum of Modern Art

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Group Exhibition Rugs from the Crawford Shops designed by American Artists

New York · 1937

Exhibition Rugs from the Crawford Shops designed by American Artists Museum of Modern Art

New York · 1937