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Bedcover Entitled "Celebrity Ties"

A work made of 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.

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  • A work made of 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.

Date:

1980/82

Artist:

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

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Artist

Grace C. Wagner

Title

Bedcover Entitled "Celebrity Ties"

Place

Illinois (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Made 1980–1982

Medium

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

Inscriptions

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

Dimensions

186.3 × 115.2 cm (73 3/8 × 45 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Shelly Zegart

Reference Number

2001.470

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