Object details
Accession number
T19w24
Primary Creator
Raymond Duncan
(San Francisco, 1874 - 1967, Paris)
Full title
Scarf with Design of Tree Trunks
Creation Date
about 1919
Description
Geometric
Provenance
Gift from the painter Louis Kronberg (1872-1965) to Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1921.
Marks
Signed (lower right): Raymond Duncan
Dimensions
58.4 x 57.8 cm (23 x 22 3/4 in.)
Display Media
Printed and painted silk tabby
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Tapestry Room
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 164-65.
Clara Strauss. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 9, no. 19 (9 Jan. 1966), p. 2.
Adolph S. Cavallo. Textiles: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1986), p. 110, no. 29, ill.
Megan Martinelli. "Would Live Like Ancient Greeks": The Art and Life of Raymond Duncan, (Kingston, RI: URI, 2013), pp. vii, 5, 34, 40, 42, 46-47, 53-54, 64, 133, 139, fig. 12.
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