About This Artwork

Designed and Executed by Grace C. Wagner
American, 1894–1992
United States, Illinois, Belleville

Bedcover Entitled "Celebrity Ties", 1980/82

Silk, cotton, linen, wool, polyester, rayon, nylon, cellulose acetate, metal foil laminated in polyester film, and metallized polyester film wrapped rayon, plain, twill, satin, gauze and float weaves, some damask weave, some with complementary warps and/or wefts, some with secondary binding warps, some with supplementary patterning warps or wefts, some double cloth, with some supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet, some self-patterned by weave variations or warp or weft floats, some screen printed; oblique interlacing and cords of oblique wrapping; machine knitting; machine embroidering stitches; machine lace; pieced and appliquéd; embroidered with cotton, silk, and polyester in buttonhole, detached chain, fly, herringbone, stem and tent stitches; applied plastic stars and mother-of-pearl flowers; edged and backed with polyester, machine knitting; screen printed
186.3 x 115.2 cm (73 3/8 x 45 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions: CELEBRITY / FRIENDSHIP / GRACE WAGNER /1980–1982 / Chicago / John Fleming / Van Johnson / Forrest Tucker / Rush Benson / Dr. Larry Tealmeier / Norman Vincent Peale / Mayor Tom Bradley / Bill Veeck, Sox / George Burns / John Williams / Boston Pops / Ed McMahon / Leonard Slatkin / St. Louis Symphony / Tennesse Ernie Ford / Art Linkletter / Dan Stewart / Henry Hagermann / Carl Driever / Jack Albertson / Danny Thomas / Kermit / Gene Kelly / Senator Charles Peray / Governor James Thompson / Bob Hope / Lawrence Welk / John Sandola / Emmett Mulconnery / Harry Cartier / Bill Culver / Muny Opera / Paul Hoemeke / Pat Boone / Johnny Carson / Max Morath, Ragtime / Cary Grant / Dr. Richard Osland / Jim Zielinski / Johnny Sieser / Red Grance "77" / Cesar Romero / Laurel Henry / Jack Kramer / George Bergman / Larry Devoli / Judge Joe Flemming
Gift of Shelly Zegart, 2001.470

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