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Approaching Change

A work made of cotton, wool, rayon, acrylic, acetate, linen, silk and polyolefin, warp-dyed complementary warp, twill and mix-float weaves with discontinuous wefts.

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  • A work made of cotton, wool, rayon, acrylic, acetate, linen, silk and polyolefin, warp-dyed complementary warp, twill and mix-float weaves with discontinuous wefts.

Date:

1997

Artist:

Cynthia Schira (American, born 1934)
United States, Kansas, Lawerence

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Artist

Cynthia Schira

Title

Approaching Change

Place

United States (Object made in)

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Made 1997

Medium

Cotton, wool, rayon, acrylic, acetate, linen, silk and polyolefin, warp-dyed complementary warp, twill and mix-float weaves with discontinuous wefts

Dimensions

156.2 × 94.8 cm (61 1/2 × 37 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Fern Goldstein and Mrs. William G. Swartchild, Jr.; through prior bequest of Katharine Kuh; Claire Zeisler and Mildred Davison Memorial Funds and Louise Lutz Endowment

Reference Number

1997.642

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