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Titled "meteor" in the vendor's invoice, the spirals and swirling shapes on this dress border show influences from pre-World War I futurist art and point the way to the syncopated patterns of the Jazz Age. The amoeba shapes in particular seem close to the work of artist Jean Arp.

Probably French maker
Maginnis & Thomas, importers
American, New York
Border, ca. 1918
Cotton; net, machine embroidered

Gift of L.J. Cella III
1991.098.50

 

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