Wallpaper, Maiden and Moon Flower pattern

Decorative Arts and Design

DESIGNER Kiki Smith, American, born Germany, 1954

MANUFACTURER Studio Printworks, New York

MEDIUM Printed paper

Place Printed: New York, New York, United States

DATES 2008

DIMENSIONS 88 11/16 x 30 1/16 in. (225.3 x 76.4 cm)

COLLECTIONS Decorative Arts and Design

ACCESSION NUMBER 2008.57.1

CREDIT LINE Gift of Studio Printworks, New York

CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Silk screen wallpaper fragment with 76 inch repeat of a single owl on top branch of a bare tree, with another owl on a lower branch and on another branch, a single closed winged butterfly in profile; beneath the tree is a woman dressed in a long dress holding an umbrella; the decorative whole with scattered, regularly spaced six pointed stars/leaves and large, open winged butterfly. The repeat continues with the same tree and owl design as before, with the same woman holding a broken chain and repetition of the scattered six pointed stars/leaves and single, large, open winged butterfly. Condition: new,unused.

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