This is the fourth installment in a series of posts in which Venetian Red explores aspects of artist-designed textiles and wallpaper. For all posts in the series, click here. by Christine Cariati Charles Burchfield, Morning Glories, c.1925 Design for fabric Burchfield Penney Art Center When Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) was a young man in Ohio he […]
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A Different Canvas: Charles Burchfield’s Landscapes for Interiors
November 18, 2009A Different Canvas: Raoul Dufy
October 7, 2009By LIZ HAGER This is the second installment in a series of posts, in which Venetian Red explores aspects of artist-designed textiles. For all posts in the series, click here. Raoul Dufy, Jungle, printed cotton, 1922. A versatile painter, Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) was equally at home in the disciplines of fine and applied arts. In addition to […]
A Different Canvas: Series Prologue
September 18, 2009By LIZ HAGER This is the first in a number of inter-related posts, in which Venetian Red explores aspects of artist-designed textiles. For all posts in the series, click here. May Morris, The Orchard, 1896, embroidered wall hanging, silk thread on silk ground. Generally, Western society places greater value on the fine arts—i.e. paintings, sculptures—than on […]
Life? or Theater? at the CJM/SF
April 17, 2011By LIZ HAGER © Liz Hager, 2011. All Rights Reserved. Charlotte Salomon, from Life? or Theater? 1940-1943 Gouache on paper (Courtesy Contemporary Jewish Museum) From 1940 to 1942, while hiding in the South of France from the worsening situation in Nazi Germany, Charlotte Salomon devoted herself wholeheartedly and relentlessly to the realization of a fictionalized autobiography, […]
