Carpet Panel for Radio City Music Hall

Ruth ReevesWW-1950-017954

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.)

Catalogue

Year: 1950
Medium: 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
Dimensions: 120.8 × 88.6 cm (47 1/2 × 34 7/8 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Ruth Reeves

Artist

Ruth Reeves

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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