Vintage Folly Cove Design Lobsters II Block Print

Description

Designed by Aino Clarke, apprentice to Virginia Lee Burton, this 1940s block print features a Japanese style ink on cloth block printing technique of lobsters, a local Gloucester, Massachusetts fisherman’s catch. 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.