Floor Slinky

Textiles

About 1971

Claire Zeisler (American, 1903-1991)
Chicago, Illinois, United States

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Claire Zeisler
Title: Floor Slinky
Place: Chicago (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 1961–1981
Medium: Metal coils ("slinkys"); padded with jute wrapped with cotton and rayon
Dimensions: Measured when slinky compressed varying from: 43.2 × 12.3 cm (17 × 4 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Joan Binkley in memory of Claire Zeisler
Reference Number: 1992.489.1-15

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.

The artist (1903-1991); by descent to her daughter, Joan Fraerman Binkley, Lake Bluff, IL [incoming receipt RX19407, May 20, 1992; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1992.

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