Golden Harvest Textile

Artist: Althea McNish, English (born Trinidad), 1924–2020
Fabricator: Hull Traders, London, England, founded 1958
Date: 1959
Material: Screenprinted cotton
made in: London, Greater London, England, Europe
Classification: Textiles
Collection: Decorative Arts and Design
Current Location: Not on view
Dimensions: 76 × 50 in. (193 × 127 cm)
Credit Line: Richard Brumbaugh Trust in memory of Richard Irving Brumbaugh and Grace Lischer Brumbaugh
Rights: Public Domain
Object Number: 41:2021

NOTES

Stalks of wheat form a sketchy mesh across a field of fiery orange and yellow in this printed cotton fabric by Trinidad-born designer Althea McNish. McNish was a close observer of nature, relishing the rare plants cultivated in Britain’s many botanical gardens as well as her adopted home’s common flora. The painterly strokes and intense colors of Golden Harvest Textile were inspired by a walk through a Sussex wheat field: “I can feel it now, how the sun was shining down on me and how I seemed lost in the wheat. Nobody could see me!”

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