"Fire-Orange" Folding Screen
Object Details
- Artist
- Jack Youngerman, American, 1926 - 2020
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Folding screen on plain wood frame, consisting of four rectangular linen-covered panels decorated across front and back. Front: perimeter with a thick blue border surrounding a thinner green border containing bright orange segments on the raw linen ground, suggesting the flames of a fire that overlap the borders at moments on the bottom, sides and top. Back: continuous border of five orange bands surrounding four green spirals on the raw linen ground, one spiral on each panel.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney M. Feldman
- 1978
- Accession Number
- 1981-67-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- furniture
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- folding screen
- Type
- folding screen
- Medium
- oil and acrylic on raw linen, wood
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 187.3 × 375.9 × 4.4 cm (6 ft. 1 3/4 in. × 12 ft. 4 in. × 1 3/4 in.)
- H x W x D (Panel): 187.3 × 94 × 4.4 cm (6 ft. 1 3/4 in. × 37 in. × 1 3/4 in.)
- made in
- USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1981-67-1
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4a1eed8e3-2a71-46c7-932d-2d58f51cc669
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