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"tombstone": "Sky Ride (Century of Progress Prints no. 1005), 1933. Walter Dorwin Teague (American, 1883\u20131960), Marshall Field & Co. (American, Chicago, 1852\u20132005). Silk: plain weave, printed; overall: 49.2 x 50.8 cm (19 3/8 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Edd A. Ruggles, 1933.38",
"current_location": "234 Textile Gallery",
"title": "Sky Ride (Century of Progress Prints no. 1005)",
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"technique": "Silk: plain weave, printed",
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"department": "Textiles",
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"measurements": "Overall: 49.2 x 50.8 cm (19 3/8 x 20 in.)",
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"id": 688299,
"title": "American Printed Silks, 1927\u20131947",
"description": "American Printed Silks, 1927\u20131947. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9, 2025-November 8, 2026).",
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"description": "Sky Ride (Century of Progress Prints no. 1005), 1933. Walter Dorwin Teague (American, 1883\u20131960), Marshall Field & Co. (American, Chicago, 1852\u20132005). Silk: plain weave, printed; overall: 51.4 x 52.1 cm (20 1/4 x 20 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1933.426",
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"description": "This printed silk square was designed by American industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague (1883-1960) for the department store Marshall Field and Company. The abstract, geometric, architectural pattern was inspired by the Sky Ride towers at the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago (1933-34). Sky ride was a transporter bridge attraction that ferried visitors across the exposition fairgrounds. During its short installation Sky Ride carried more than 4 million passengers.",
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"citation": "Century of Progress International Exposition. Official Pictures of a Century of Progress Exposition. Kaufmann & Fabry Co. (Chicago, Ill: 1933)",
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"citation": "\"The Store Book: Views and Facts of the Retail Store of Marshall Field & Company,\" Marshall Field & Company (1933)",
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"url": "https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ead/pdf/century0127.pdf"
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"citation": "\"The Store and A Century of Progress 1934, Marshall Field & Company, Chicago,\" Fashion of the Hour, Marshall Field & Company (1934)",
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"url": "https://digital.hagley.org/08084890_the_store_and_a_century"
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{
"citation": "Reid, Kenneth. \"Walter Dorwin Teague, Master of Design,\" Pencil Points (New York: Architectural Review, Inc, 1937)",
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"citation": "Teague, Walter Dorwin. Design This Day: The Technique of Order in the Machine Age. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940.",
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"citation": "Marchand, Roland. 1991. \u201cThe Designers Go to the Fair: Walter Dorwin Teague and the Professionalization of Corporate Industrial Exhibits, 1933-1940.\u201d Design Issues 8 (1)",
"page_number": "pp. 4-17",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/1511449"
},
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"citation": "Boardman, Michelle. All That Jazz: Printed Fashion Silks of the '20s and '30s. Allentown, Pa: Allentown Art Museum, 1998.",
"page_number": "pp. 17-20",
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"citation": "Allen, Franklin. Silk Industry of the World at the Opening of the Twentieth Century. New York, Silk Association of America: Nabu Press, 2010.",
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}
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"url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1933.38",
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"creditline": "Gift of Mrs. Edd A. Ruggles",
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"gallery_donor_text": "Arlene M. and Arthur S. Holden Textile Gallery",
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"biography": "Industrial designer and architect Walter Dorwin Teague (1883-1960) was a pioneering American modern industrial designer. Best known for his design of the Ford Building at the 1939 New York World\u2019s Fair, Teague was also responsible for the interior design of Detroit-based industrial architect Albert Kahn\u2019s (1869-1942) Ford pavilion at the Century of Progress exposition (Chicago, 1933-34). Teague impressed the public with his minimalism and dramatic lighting, a style that can be seen in his designs for cameras, radios, graphics, textiles and more. The Cleveland Museum of Art owns ten of Teague\u2019s silk textiles in eight different patterns inspired by the architectural installations at the Century of Progress exposition.",
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"biography": "Built from a small dry goods store in the 1850s, Marshall Field and Co. (1852-2006) was one of the United States\u2019 largest department stores by 1930. Marshall Field offered international luxuries\u2014boasting oriental rug galleries and French dressing parlors. In the summer of 1933 alone, store guides (called Sightseers) led over 100,000 tours. In 1930, the company opened the Chicago Merchandise Mart, a massive expansion of their wholesale operations into a new building that was at the time the largest building in the world. It has its own zip code! Walter Dorwin Teague\u2019s Century of Progress silk prints were manufactured and printed by Marshall Field and Co. in celebration of the Century of Progress exposition, held in Chicago in 1933-34. Walter Dorwin Teague\u2019s silks, trademarked under the name Silks Beau Monde, were exhibited on the fourth floor of the Merchandise Mart; they were woven, dyed and printed in Marshall Field\u2019s mill in Union Hill, New Jersey.",
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"updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:47:43.988000"
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