Ventana I

Textiles

1963

Sheila Hicks (American, born 1934)
Mexico

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Sheila Hicks
Title: Ventana I
Places: Mexico (Object made in:), United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date: Made 1963
Medium: Wool, plain weave of discontinuous wefts with areas of open work and weft wrapping
Dimensions: 62.8 × 70.6 cm (24 3/4 × 27 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Itaka Schlubach Hicks
Reference Number: 1995.152

Christa C. Mayer Thurman, Contemporary Fiber Art, A Selection from the Permanent Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2010), 32 (ill.). [limited printing]
Zӧe Ryan, editor, In a Cloud, In a Wall, In a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexioc at Midcentury, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago with Yale University Press, 2019), 217, cat. 91 (ill.)

Chicago Cultural Center, Material Difference: Soft Sculpture and Wall Works, Nov. 4, 2006–Jan. 7, 2007.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Contemporary Fiber Art, A Selection from the Permanent Collection, Nov. 3, 2010-May 8, 2011.
Art Institute of Chicago, In a Cloud, In a Wall, In a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury, Sept. 6, 2019-Jan. 12, 2020, cat.

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