Chestnut Street, by Louise Kenyon, circa 1951
Chestnut Street, by Louise Kenyon, circa 1951
A vintage Folly Cove Designers hand block printed textile, in the 'Chestnut Street' pattern depicting Federal period houses in Salem, in brick red on cream colored linen, designed by Louise Kenyon, circa 1951.
New museum quality framing, invisibly sewn on linen with UV resistant glass. invisibly sewn on linen, museum quality framing.
The Folly Cove Designers were founded in Gloucester, Massachusetts by Virginia Lee Burton, the celebrated children's book author and illustrator who wrote Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, The Little House, and Mabel the Cable Car; among other classics, which have never gone out of print. Production of these textiles ceased in 1968. Their work is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among other museums and private collections.