Elenhank
Elenhank (or Elenhank Designers, Inc.) was a textile design firm. It was started by artist and her husband architect . They blended their names together to create the company name. They started creating textiles in 1946. Eleanor Kluck designed and cut the lino-cuts that were used. She started working with Henry Kluck in 1948. In the mid-1950s they started to use screen-printing methods. In the 1970s they started designing textiles influenced by Northern Indiana landscapes.[1]
Works by Elenhank are held in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[2][3][4]
References[]
- ^ Lesley Jackson (8 February 2007). Twentieth Century Pattern Design. Princeton Architectural Press. pp. 110–111. ISBN 978-1-56898-712-5. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ^ Elenhank | People | Collection of Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
- ^ The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Search the Collections
- ^ Kluck, Eleanor | The Art Institute of Chicago
Categories:
- American textile designers
- Defunct companies based in Illinois
- 1946 establishments in the United States
- Textile arts stubs