Faja

Textiles

c. 1960

Sheila Hicks (American, born 1934)
Mexico

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Sheila Hicks
Title: Faja
Place: Mexico (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 1950–1964
Medium: Wool and cotton
Dimensions: 62.9 × 11.5 cm (24 3/4 × 4 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Ross D. Siragusa, Jr.
Reference Number: 1964.180

Zӧe Ryan, editor, In a Cloud, In a Wall, In a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexioc at Midcentury, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago with Yale University Press, 2019), 57-58, 216, cat. 90 (ill.) [as “Faja”].

Art Institute of Chicago, In a Cloud, In a Wall, In a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury, Sept. 6, 2019-Jan. 12, 2020, cat. [as “Faja”].

Ross D. Siragusa, Jr., Lake Forest, IL, by 1964; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1964.

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