Big Checkerboard (No. 9-97)

Textiles

Shôwa period (1926–1989), 1984

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Jun-ichi Arai (Designer)
Title: Big Checkerboard (No. 9-97)
Place: Japan
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 1984
Medium: Nylon, plain weave
Dimensions: 312.5 × 110 cm (123 × 43 1/4 in.); Repeat: 29.3 × 27.2 cm (11 1/2 × 10 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the NUNO Corporation
Reference Number: 1997.648

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, The 20th-Century Textile Artist, Mar. 31–Aug. 1, 1999.

NUNO Corporation, Tokyo [incoming receipt RX21723, Sept. 8, 1997; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997.

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