Saint Louis Art Museum Announces Textile Exhibition

Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:02

St. Louis, MO - The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the July 21 opening of Recent Acquisitions from the Textile Collection, an exhibition of ten textiles acquired by the Museum in the last five years that represent a broad range of cultures and time periods.

Featured works include a luxurious late 18^th to early 19^th-century Kashmir shawl, a Cambodian silk wrapper known as a phaa nung that measures more than 100 inches wide, and a 19^th-century embroidered raffia skirt worn by African royalty as a symbol of prestige. 

Other selected acquisitions represent 20^th-century technological and design developments.  Several Japanese textiles made from inventive combinations of old traditions and new technologies will be on view, as well as a stylized floral-designed tablecloth attributed to Peter Behrens, a leading designer of the Vereinigte Werkstätten für Kunst im Handwerk in Munich, Germany.

Curated by Zoe Annis Perkins , textile conservator, Recent Acquisitions from the Textile Collection will be on view in the William A. and Carolyn C. McDonnell Textile Gallery (100) through January 21, 2007.

The Saint Louis Art Museum is one of the nation’s leading comprehensive art museums with collections that include works of art of exceptional quality from virtually every culture and time period.  Areas of notable depth include Oceanic art, pre-Columbian art, ancient Chinese bronzes and European and American art of the late 19^th and 20^th centuries, with particular strengths in 20^th century German art.  The Museum offers a full range of exhibitions and educational programming generated independently and in collaboration with local, national, and international partners.

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