Wallpaper, Maiden and Moon Flower pattern

Artist:Kiki SmithStudio Printworks, New York

Medium: Printed paper

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Dates:2008

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

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Accession Number: 2008.57.1

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.

Brooklyn Museum