Kaivo Textile
- Designer
- Maija Isola, Finnish, 1927–2001
- Date
- 1965
- Material
- Screenprinted cotton
- made in
- Helsinki, Uusimaa province, Finland, Europe
- Classification
- Textiles
- Collection
- Decorative Arts and Design
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 55 1/2 x 201 in. (141 x 510.5 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Marimekko Oy
- Rights
- © Maija Isola, courtesy of Marimekko Corporation
- Object Number
- 161:1971
NOTES
Fluid scallops of black and white pulse down the pure red ground of this screen-printed textile, called Kaivo, or “well” in Finnish. Its designer Maija Isola was recruited out of art school in 1949 to work for the Finnish textile and fashion firm Marimekko by its trailblazing founder Armi Ratia. Isola, who considered herself first and foremost an artist, embraced the same radical simplicity and enormous scale as postwar American abstract painters.
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