About This Artwork
Das andere Land (The Other Land)1986/87
Linen, plain weave; embroidered with linen, wool, silk, horsehair, hemp, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in open buttonhole filling and stem stitches; laid work and couching
207 x 335 cm (81 1/2 x 131 7/8 in.)
Restricted gift of the Women's Board, Wirt D. Walker Endowment, and Lissy Funk Acquisition Fund, 1989.414
Textiles
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "Textile Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago's Collection," February 17–May 2, 1993
The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "Focus on Fiber Art: Selections from the Growing 20th Century Collection,"
October 6, 1993–February 27, 1994
Publication History
"Museum News: Acquisition," The Art Institute of Chicago News and Events (September/October 1989), p. 8.
Christa C. Mayer Thurman, Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), pp. 140-41, 135 (Illus.), 149.
Fritz Billeter and Rosina Kuhn, Lissy Funk (Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 1999), p. 27, pl. 20.