Untitled (Mobiles)
Marian Mahler
British, 1911–1983
c.1952
A roller-printed rayon textile that translates the idea of hanging mobiles into a repeating pattern, aiming to bring playful, kinetic modernism into everyday interiors.
Densely packed vertical motifs — red arching forms, yellow discs, and textured white pendants strung on thin gray lines set against deep black — give an immediate sense of suspended balance and rhythmic movement.
Made around 1952, it exemplifies postwar modern textile design that translated sculptural abstraction into industrially produced fabrics, helping avant-garde forms become part of ordinary domestic life.
Medium
Roller-printed rayon
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Jill A. Wiltse and H. Kirk Brown III
Accession
1092.2015
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