Tapestry

Textiles

c. 1954

Martta Taipale (Finnish, 1893–1966)
Helsinki, Finland

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Martta Taipale
Title: Tapestry
Place: Finland (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 1944–1964
Medium: Linen, wool, silk, rayon, cotton, metal-foil laminated in cellulose acetate film-wrapped cotton and rayon, metal-foil laminated in cellulose acetate film, and metal-foil-wrapped cotton, slit tapestry weave
Dimensions: 42 × 32.3 cm (16 1/2 × 12 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Lenore Tawney
Reference Number: 1994.309

Bobbye Tigerman and Monica Obniski, Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890-1980 (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books·Prestel, 2020), 196, cat. 155 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, The 20th-Century Textile Artist, Mar. 31–Aug. 1, 1999.
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 (Los Angeles and Milwaukee only).

Lenore Tawney (died 2007), Chicago then New York [incoming receipt RX20175, Mar. 18, 1994; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1994.

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