{"data": {"id": 126285, "accession_number": "1948.493", "share_license_status": "Copyrighted", "tombstone": "Markelius, c. 1942. Stig Lindberg (Swedish, 1916\u20131982), Knoll Associates (American, est. 1938). Plain weave linen (?), loom width, block printed; average: 321.3 x 128.3 cm (126 1/2 x 50 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1948.493", "current_location": null, "title": "Markelius", "creation_date": "c. 1942", "creation_date_earliest": 1940, "creation_date_latest": 1944, "artists_tags": ["male", "gender unknown"], "culture": ["America"], "technique": "Plain weave linen (?), loom width, block printed", "support_materials": [], "department": "Textiles", "collection": "Textiles", "type": "Textile", "measurements": "Average: 321.3 x 128.3 cm (126 1/2 x 50 1/2 in.)", "dimensions": {"average": {"height": 3.213, "height_inch": 126, "height_inch_fraction": 0.5, "width": 1.283, "width_inch": 50, "width_inch_fraction": 0.5}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 355758, "title": "Exhibition of the Month: Herbs in Art", "description": "<i>Exhibition of the Month: Herbs in Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 8-August 1, 1953).", "opening_date": "1953-05-08T04:00:00"}, {"id": 302021, "title": "Design in Printed Textiles", "description": "<i>Design in Printed Textiles</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 7-September 3, 1961).", "opening_date": "1961-04-07T05:00:00"}, {"id": 313463, "title": "Color and Comfort: Swedish Modern Design", "description": "<i>Color and Comfort: Swedish Modern Design</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 11, 2019-February 10, 2020).", "opening_date": "2019-02-17T05:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Though this pattern is often attributed to the architect Sven Markelius, this textile identifies Stig Lindberg as its designer on the selvage edge.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Stig Lindberg may have designed this textile in homage to Stockholm\u2019s most prominent post-World War II architect and city planner, Sven Markelius (1889\u20131972), for whom this textile is named. The strong use of geometry and the grid pattern were hallmarks of Markelius\u2019s building and city designs, linking this pattern to the urban planner\u2019s modernist visions for Sweden\u2019s capital.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79905570"], "internet_archive": []}, "citations": [{"citation": "Martin, Earl.<em> Knoll Textiles</em>. New Haven, CT: Published for Bard Graduate Center by Yale University Press, 2011.", "page_number": "Rep. 96 (Fig. 2.22) & 97 (Fig. 2.23), Disc. 105", "url": null}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.493", "images": {}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. 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Prior to his directorship, Lindberg illustrated children\u2019s books and designed textiles for Nordiska Kompaniet that often incorporated playful motifs.", "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1916", "death_year": "1982", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 1}, {"id": 16913, "description": "Knoll Associates (American, est. 1938)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "manufacturer", "biography": "American furniture and interior design firm, founded in 1938 by Hans Knoll (1914-1955), who emigrated from Germany to the USA in 1935. It now has subsidiary companies all over the world, which operate under the name Knoll International.", "name_in_original_language": null, "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 2}], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "1948-12-30T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 1940, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "c. 1942", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "object", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:48:49.532000"}}