Textile
Gift of Mrs. Malcolm L. McBride
Catalogue
- Year
- 1932
- Dimensions
- Average: 90.8 x 138.4 cm (35 3/4 x 54 1/2 in.)
- Collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Artist
- Ruth Reeves
Artist
Painting
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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Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Ruth Reeves
- Year
- 1932
- Dimensions
- Average: 90.8 x 138.4 cm (35 3/4 x 54 1/2 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1932-161962
Source
- Collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Source
- cleveland
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified