Bali prints by Covarrubias / Virginia Roehl. – Vintage Wall Art
![Bali prints by Covarrubias / Virginia Roehl., [between 1930 and 1950] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ea/ea6da71fcf04-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Bali prints by Covarrubias / Virginia Roehl. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Bali prints by Covarrubias / Virginia Roehl.
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Dresses printed with designs by Miguel Covarrubias, the Mexican artist who had just published his studies of Balinese art and life, are the focus of this display photograph from the Franklin Simon & Co. department store in New York. The store's display was staged for the sales floor, and the photographer's studio, Virginia Roehl's Display News Service, documented such window and interior arrangements for the trade. In the 1930s, Bali's dance, textiles and carved imagery were popular with American designers and shoppers, and Covarrubias's work helped make the island's motifs fashionable. The print offers a useful record of how retailers presented exotic fabrics to women shoppers in the years before World War II.
| Created / published | [between 1930 and 1950] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Title from item. No. 3514 Franklin Simon. Stamped on verso: Virginia Roehl, Inc. Display News Service, 47 West 57th St., N.Y.C. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1974:R03 |
| Subjects | Franklin Simon & Co.--Products--1930-1950. Merchandise displays--1930-1950. Women--clothing & dress--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,265 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-207750 |
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