ROLLER PRINTED RAYON
55 x 84cm
David Whitehead Ltd
LITERATURE
The Sixties: Decade of Design Revolution, Lesley Jackson, Phaidon, 1998
20th Century Pattern Design: Textile & Wallpaper Pioneers, Lesley Jackson, Mitchell Beazley, 2002
English and American Textiles, from 1790 to the present, Mary Schoeser & Celia Rufey, Thames & Hudson,1989 20th Century Pattern Design, Textile & Wallpaper Pioneers, Lesley Jackson, Mitchell Beazley, 2002
Twentieth Century Textiles, Sue Kerry, Antique Collectors Club Ltd, 2007
Designing Women of Post War Britain, Colorado Springs Fine Art Centre, USA, 2008
Textile Design Jacqueline Groag Rayner, Chamberlain, Stapleton, Antique Collectors Club Ltd, 2009
Jacques and Jacqueline Groag Architect and Designer, Ursula Prokop, Doppel House Press, 2019
EXHIBITIONS
David Whitehead Artist Designed textiles 1952 – 1969, Oldham Art Gallery, 1993 Designing Women of Post War Britain, Colorado Springs Fine Art Centre, USA, 2008 Women Design, Mid-Century Britain, The Textile Museum, Washington DC, USA, 2010 Twentieth Century Textiles, Francesca Galloway Gallery, Dover Street, London, 2007
COLLECTIONS
The Victoria & Albert Museum
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
H. Kirk Brown III and Jill A. Wiltse, Denver, Colorado, USA
£3,750
Jacqueline Groag was a hugely influential post-war designer. Originally Czech, Groag studied in Vienna and designed for the Wiener Werkstätte before moving to Paris in 1929, where she worked on dress fabrics for fashion houses such as Chanel. She moved to London in1939. In addition to working with some of the foremost textile manufacturers and retailers of the era in Britain and America.