Box with Bone and Stone

Textiles

1970s

Lenore Tawney (American, 1907–2007)
United States, New York, New York City

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Lenore Tawney
Title: Box with Bone and Stone
Place: New York City (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 1970–1979
Medium: Box covered with manuscript pages (ink on paper); inside: rock on plexiglas cylinder; in lid: piece of bone
Inscriptions: Inscription (inside): To Katherine a stone from Truro with love LT
Dimensions: 8.8 × 13.3 × 9.8 cm (3 1/2 × 5 1/4 × 3 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Katharine Kuh
Reference Number: 1994.300
Copyright: © Lenore G. Tawney Foundation

Lenore Tawney (died 2007), New York, before 1989 [letter from L. Tawney to C. Thurman, July 13, 1994; copy in curatorial object file]; given to Katharine Kuh (died 1994), New York, around 1989; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1994.

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