6 pm reception
6:30 pm gallery talk
In 1915 anthropology curators and researchers at the
American Museum of Natural History set out to inspire New York designers with
the ethnographic collections. This culminated in the production of modern
textiles and garments by firms such as H. R. Mallinson & Co., and designers
Max Mayer, Ruth Reeves, and Jessie Franklin Turner. In this gallery talk, Ann
Tartsinis will explore this unusual project—whose legacy lasted into the late
1920s.
Ann Marguerite Tartsinis is an associate curator at the
Bard Graduate Center Gallery and curator of the exhibition An American
Style: Global Sources for New York Textile and Fashion Design, 1915–1928.