1985.R.115, Square Textile Brocade with Bird and Flower Motif, France, 18th century

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In 1985, the Dallas Museum of Art's textile holdings experienced remarkable growth with the addition of The Wendy and Emery Reves extensive decorative arts collection. The Reves textile collection includes European vestments, bed coverings, velvets, silk fabrics, and laces, as well as carpets from Spain, Turkey, Egypt, and India. 

1985.R.116, Square Textile Brocade, France, 18th Century

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION  
In 1985, the Dallas Museum of Art's textile holdings experienced remarkable growth with the addition of The Wendy and Emery Reves extensive decorative arts collection. The Reves textile collection includes European vestments, bed coverings, velvets, silk fabrics, and laces, as well as carpets from Spain, Turkey, Egypt, and India. 

1985.R.114, Rectangular Red Brocade Piece with Two Angels, n.d.

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In 1985, the Dallas Museum of Art's textile holdings experienced remarkable growth with the addition of The Wendy and Emery Reves extensive decorative arts collection. The Reves textile collection includes European vestments, bed coverings, velvets, silk fabrics, and laces, as well as carpets from Spain, Turkey, Egypt, and India. 

39.2015.1 Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait, “Very Ugly” (Autorretrato, “Muy Fea”), 1933

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Considered Frida Kahlo’s sole attempt at fresco painting, this small plasterboard panel reveals the artist’s exploration and subsequent abandonment of a medium with which her husband—famed muralist Diego Rivera—had much familiarity.

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)

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Considered one of Mexico’s greatest artists, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo was born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón Kahlo, in Coyoacán, Mexico City on July 6, 1907. She grew up in the family home where she was born, later referred to as the Blue House or Casa Azul. Her father was a German photographer who had immigrated to Mexico where he met and married her mother. She contracted polio around age six, which caused a permanent limp.

Carpets and Other Textiles in the Reves Collection

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Piled carpets were probably known in ancient Greece and Rome, though none survive. Fifth century Coptic rugs made of a looped pile do, however, exist. In the 7th century, the Arabs swept across North Africa gathering Egyptian and Berber converts to their forces, and in the 8th century, conquered Visigothic Spain brought their rug-making techniques to the West.
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