Shield

Textiles

c. 1967/85

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

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Lenore Tawney
Title: Shield
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 1967–1985
Medium: Linen, warp-faced weft-ribbed plain weave; embellished with sparrow feathers; wooden rods; braided warp fringe embellished with whelk egg cases and warp fringe knotted to silk
Dimensions: 78.7 × 25.4 cm (31 × 10 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Lenore Tawney
Reference Number: 1997.355
Copyright: © Lenore G. Tawney Foundation

Kathleen Nugent Mangan, ed. Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective, exh. cat. (New York: Rizzoli and the American Craft Museum, 1990).

New York, American Craft Museum, Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective, Apr. 18-June 21, 1990, cat.; traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 26-Oct. 28, 1990; and Washington, D.C., Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Apr. 12-July 21, 1991.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, The 20th-Century Textile Artist, Mar. 31–Aug. 1, 1999.

The artist (died 2007), New York; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997.

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