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Harlem Toile de Jouy
- Designed by
- Bridges, Sheila, American, born 1964
- Date
- 2005
- Medium
- ink on paper (fiber product)
- Dimensions
- L x W: 360 × 30 1/2 in. (914.4 × 77.5 cm)
- Description
- A sidewall designed by Sheila Bridges. The wallpaper is bright yellow with repeating black and white vignettes in the French toile style. The vignettes feature pastoral scenes of people engaged in a variety of leisure activities, all wearing 18th century clothing. The scenes include young men playing basketball, ladies at their toilette, a couple dancing to a boombox, a picnic scene with fried chicken and watermelon, a woman running with horses, and girls playing double dutch.
- Cultural Place
- Harlem, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design
- Type
- wallpapers
- Topic
- Amusements
- Design
- Interior design
- Recreation
- Stereotypes
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Sheila Bridges
- Object number
- 2018.72.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Sheila Bridges
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Hudson Valley Toile
- Designed by
- Bridges, Sheila, American, born 1964
- Date
- 2014
- Medium
- ink on paper (fiber product)
- Dimensions
- L x W: 180 × 30 1/8 in. (457.2 × 76.5 cm)
- Description
- A sidewall designed by Sheila Bridges. The wallpaper has a design of pink gingham with scattered and repeating black and white vignettes in the French toile style. The vignettes feature comical illustrations of people engaged in a variety of typical Hudson Valley scenes. Included is a scene of two men posed as farmers in the style of American Gothic; a painter on the banks of the Hudson River, with a Victorian mansion in the background; Rip Van Winkle sitting in bridge traffic; a hunter being chased by a deer; a mountain scene with a sledding bear amidst the skiers; and a scene of a woman in sunglasses asking, "Do you know if they sell Hudson Valley fois gras?" as she stands next to her car (license plate reads [COUGAR]) outside a store.
- Place depicted
- Hudson Valley, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design
- Type
- wallpapers
- Topic
- Amusements
- Design
- Domestic life
- Interior design
- Recreation
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Sheila Bridges
- Object number
- 2018.72.2
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Sheila Bridges