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Primitive bird

AILSA GRAHAM ART FABRICS, Melbourne (manufacturer), Ailsa GRAHAM (director and designer), Beverley KNOX (chief designer)
Primitive bird
 (1954)

Medium
screenprinted cotton

Measurements
326.0 × 90.0 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Trish Waterfall, Marsalie Eaton and Gail Quilliam, 2010

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Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Australia

Inscription
printed (vertically) black on white cotton u.l. selvedge: "Primitive Bird" - An Ailsa Graham Art Fabric

Accession Number
2010.154

Department
Australian Fashion and Textiles

This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest

Physical description
Cotton furnishing fabric length featuring a floating grid of repeat design against a green ground. Primitive bird in black outline with decorative brown striping (feathers) surrounded by further geometric patterns and small plant motifs.

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