The Bride Has Entered

Textiles

1982

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

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Lenore Tawney
Title: The Bride Has Entered
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 1982
Medium: Cotton, plain weave; painted with pigment and gold leaf; attached linen threads in grid pattern
Dimensions: 176.5 × 177.6 × 213.3 cm (69 1/2 × 69 7/8 × 84 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Lenore Tawney; purchased with funds provided by the Textile Society, Joan G. Rosenberg, Mr. and Mrs. Richard J.L. Senior, Mrs. William G. Swartchild Jr., and Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken
Reference Number: 1990.537
Copyright: © Lenore G. Tawney Foundation

Christa C. Mayer Thurman, Contemporary Fiber Art, A Selection from the Permanent Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2010), 26-27 (ill.). [limited printing]

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Focus on Fiber Art: Selections from the Growing 20th Century Collection, Oct. 6, 1993–Feb. 27, 1994.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Twenty Years of Textile Society Collecting (1978–1998), Dec. 20, 1997–Mar. 22, 1998.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, The 20th-Century Textile Artist, Mar. 31–Aug. 1, 1999.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Focus on Fiber Art: Selections from the Growing 20th Century Collection, Oct. 6, 1993–Feb. 27, 1994.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Weaving beyond the Bauhaus, Aug. 3, 2019-Feb. 17, 2020.

The artist; partially given and partially sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1990.

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