Border (USA)

Kate Greenaway

1945

screen printed on paper

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Children's paper with reproductions of drawings by Kate Greenaway depicting four children at play, two boys and two girls. Each child is separated by a spray of flowers outlined. The children, too, are outlined, and dressed in typical Greenaway clothes. At the top is a pink band with running floral sprays outlined in white. At bottom is a blue band with same motif running in reverse direction. Printed in blue and pink on ivory ground.