La Matinata (Morning Song)

Textiles

1975

Lissy Funk (Swiss, born Germany, 1909–2005)
Zürich, Switzerland

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Lissy Funk
Title: La Matinata (Morning Song)
Place: Zürich (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 1975
Medium: Linen, plain weave; underlaid with cotton, plain weave; embroidered with linen, silk, and cotton in padded satin, satin and stem stitches; laid work and couching
Dimensions: 184.1 × 154.3 cm (72 1/2 × 60 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of The Textile Arts Foundation (Nancy Hemenway and Robert D. Barton)
Reference Number: 1997.697

Christa C. Mayer Thurman, Lisy Funk: A Retrospective, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1988), 68-39, cat. 18 (ill.).
Robert D. Barton, Color & Form: International Innovations in Textiles, exh. cat. (Washington, DC: Fine Arts Program of the Federal Reserve Board with the Textiles Arts Foundation), cat. 7 (ill).
Fritz Billeter and Rosina Kuhn, Lissy Funk (Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 1999), 26, no. 13 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Lissy Funk: A Retrospective, Dec. 7, 1988–Feb. 6, 1989; cat.; travelled to Krefeld, Germany, Mar. 12-June 4, 1989; Zurich, Switzerland, Helmhaus, July 16-Aug. 19, 1989.
Washington, DC, Federal Reserve Board Building, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in cooperation with the Textile Art Foundation, Color & Form: International Innovations in Textiles, Apr. 3-May 25, 1990, cat.
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, Contemporary Fiber Art, A Selection from the Permanent Collection, Nov. 3, 2010 -May 8, 2011.

Nancy Hemenway Barton and Robert D. Barton, Textile Arts Foundation, Boothbay Harbor, ME, by 1988 [Thurman 1988, cat. 18; incoming permanent receipt RX21321, Sept. 4, 1996; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1996.

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