Three Angels

Textiles

1954

Lenore Tawney (American, 1907–2007)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Lenore Tawney
Title: Three Angels
Place: Penland (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 1954
Medium: Linen, wool, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton, silk, cotton, metal-foil-laminated in cellulose acetate film-wrapped rayon, and rayon-and-nylon, tapestry weave
Dimensions: 67 × 63.5 cm (26 3/8 × 25 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Lenore Tawney
Reference Number: 1994.308
Copyright: © Lenore G. Tawney Foundation

Kathleen Nugent Mangan, ed., Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective, exh. cat. (New York: Rizzoli with American Craft Museum, 1990), 19 [photograph of L. Tawney at the loom at Penland School of Crafts, 1954; weaving in process on the loom].
Karen E. Paterson, ed., Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe (Sheboygan, WI: John Michael Kohler Arts Center in association with The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2019), 54 [color photograph of L. Tawney at the loom at Penland School of Crafts, 1954; weaving in process on the loom].

Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890–1980, Oct. 14, 2021–Jan. 9, 2022; Oslo, Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, Mar. 17–Aug. 7, 2022; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oct. 9, 2022–Feb. 5, 2023; Milwaukee Art Museum, Mar. 24–July 23, 2023 (Stockholm only).

The artist (died 2007), Chicago then New York [woven at the Penland School of Craft, NC; see Lenore G. Tawney Foundation, Chronology, 1954, accessed Dec. 30, 2020, https://lenoretawney.org/lenore-tawney/chronology/ ]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1994.

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