Colleen Farr, RCA (British, Contemporary)
Two Modernist Geometric Textile Designs c1954 - c1970
Gouache on paper 100 / 101
Float mounted with Art Glass AR70 Conservation Glass
83 cms x 44 cms (grey frame and grey mount card)
Provenance; Direct from the artist's studio
[with] Contemporary Art Management

Colleen Farr trained at the Royal College of Art after the war, specialising in textile design. She went on to become a full time artist, exhibiting regularly at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Examples of her designs can be seen on the V&A and the Ual websites. She taught on the Textile Design Course at the Central School of Art and Design from 1966 for over twenty years and became Head of Department. Colleen Farr designed for Liberty & Co. of London from 1953 to 1965 as their first female resident designer. Her success at Liberty & Co. was established with the receipt the same year of a gold medal at the Sacramento International Fair for 'Blackberry' a textile designed in 1955 and via other fashion fabrics designed for and used by Mary Quant, Jean Muir, Foale and Tuffin and others. From 1962 she worked on a free-lance basis for Liberty & Co. as well as Heals, Graftons, Cepea, Tootal and other leading 20thC design led companies.

The Farr donation covers the period 1954 to c.1970 and is a valuable addition to the postwar textile material in the V & A Museum London Study Collection from this important 20th Century designer of fabrics and textiles.

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