About this artwork
Stein created this amoeba-like form after visiting an exhibition about the exploration of life in the deep ocean or volcanoes at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Textiles
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Artist
- Ethel Stein
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Title
- Ancestors
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Place
- New York (Object made in)
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Date
- Made 1983–2008
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Medium
- Cotton, plain weave with discontinuous supplementary wefts bound in twill interlacings and supplementary pile warps forming cut and voided velvet; woven on a loom with a drawloom attachment fabricated by the artist
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Dimensions
- 64.5 × 53.3 cm (25 3/8 × 21 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Ethel Stein
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Reference Number
- 2012.443
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Copyright
- © Ethel Stein
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