Skip to main content

Visit Main Menu Block

  • Hours & Admission
  • Accessibility & Amenities
  • Tours & Group Visits
  • Visitor Guidelines

Exhibitions and Events Main Menu Block

  • Exhibitions
  • Events

Art and Design Main Menu Block

  • Collection
  • Collection Research
  • Past Exhibitions
  • Watch / Listen / Read

Footer Main

  • Become a Member
  • Who We Are
  • Opportunities
  • Rent the Museum

Image

Previous image 1 2 / 2 Next image

Robert Evans Locher

Design for Wallpaper (Lady - Lily - Swan)

Description

Maker

Robert Evans Locher (American, 1888-1956

Title

Design for Wallpaper (Lady - Lily - Swan)

Year

ca. 1920-1940

Medium

  • Graphite and wash on paper

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Graphite and wash on paper

Materials

wash technique

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

47.9 x 46.2 cm (18 7/8 x 18 3/16 inches) (sheet)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of the Locher Family

Object Number

60.084.14

Type

  • Drawings and Watercolors

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Works in Process
Jul 31, 2021 – Jan 23, 2022

Label copy

This series of drawings demonstrates Robert Evan Locher’s talent for transforming classical imagery into sleek and modern wallpaper designs. A serene landscape with swans, flowers, and an urn was simplified into a concept drawing, followed by small changes in shape, scale, and composition that are evident in the final product. This design was likely pared down for easier manufacturing, but it also reflects budding Art Deco and Streamline Moderne aesthetics.

Locher was a prolific gay artist, creating illustrations for Vogue and Vanity Fair, designing interior spaces and theater sets and costumes, and working with companies to make products that married historic and modern styles for broad appeal. [see also: 60.084.15, 60.084.17, 60.084.21].

Related Objects

Related Objects

Robert Evans Locher

Lady-Lily-Swan Wallpaper

More objects +

Use & Feedback

Image use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use.

This object is in copyright

Tombstone

Robert Evans Locher (American, 1888-1956
b. Lancaster, Pennslyvianna)
Design for Wallpaper (Lady - Lily - Swan), ca. 1920-1940
Graphite and wash on paper
47.9 x 46.2 cm (18 7/8 x 18 3/16 inches) (sheet)
Gift of the Locher Family 60.084.14

To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

Feedback

We view our online collection as a living documents, and our records are frequently revised and enhanced. If you have additional information or have spotted an error, please send feedback to curatorial@risd.edu.

RISD Museum

  •  Facebook
  •  Twitter
  •  Instagram
  •  Vimeo
  •  Pinterest
  •  SoundCloud

Footer Main

  • Become a Member
  • Who We Are
  • Opportunities
  • Rent the Museum

Footer Secondary

  • Image Request
  • Press Office
  • Rent the Museum
  • Terms of Use