Ketchikan (Furnishing Fabric)
<p>Designer Ben Rose based this textile on formline art made by Tlingit communities in Ketchikan, Alaska, south of Juneau. Rose sought out patterns that audiences in other parts of the United States might have been less familiar with. He then transformed them into fabrics that could be used widely in furnishings and fashion. Because these motifs were appropriated by a non-Native artist for non-Native use, they became divorced from their rich meanings and histories in Indigenous communities. Here, Rose may have been inspired by objects similar to <a href="https://www.artic.edu/artworks/254311">this làkt or bentwood box</a> by James Johnson (Tlingit, Ch’áak’Dakl’aweidi Clan).</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1983
- Dimensions
- 90.8 × 127.7 cm (35 3/4 × 50 1/4 in.); Repeat: 29.9 × 25.4 cm (11 3/4 × 10 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Ben Rose
Artist
Photography
Ben Rose was an American photographer active from the mid-twentieth century.
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- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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