Price: on request
Ref N°: 6763
Cornish Farm designed by Alec Walker hand block printed linen with farm buildings, trees and gardens. in mid blue, green & ochre on a white ground, made into a jacket in the 1940's with straight sleeves, button collar, The inner neck is lined with a patterned cotton from the 1940's.
Bust 32 in or 82 cm; 20 1/2 in or 52 cm long; repeat 16 1/2 in or 42 cm. Size 8-10 UK; 6-8 USA.
Excellent.
The design was illustrated in Frank Rutter's article on Alec Walker, Studio magazine, 1928 (vol 85).
Art Deco Textiles. Samuels, Charlotte p 128, Plate 104. The V & As piece is on silk.
Penlee Museum PEZPH 1999.10 for similar design but made into a linen dress.
Crysede Berriman, Hazel
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O68134/cornish-farm-dress-fabric-walker-alec - A length of silk in same design.
See: My ARTICLE on Crysede.
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Cornish Farm was probably among the earliest of a series of designs based on Alec Walker's landscape sketches and paintings. This design was exhibited at the Independent Gallery, Grafton St, London in 1925. A reviewer of the exhibition wrote A Cornish Farm has chimney pots and latticed windows behind which one knows they are eating sloe jam and cream