Envelope and Collage

Textiles

1990

Lenore Tawney (American, 1907-2007)
New York, United States

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Lenore Tawney
Title: Envelope and Collage
Place: New York City (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.: 1990
Medium: Pen and black ink and collage
Dimensions: Envelope with contents: 10.2 × 19.4 × 0.6 cm (4 × 7 5/8 × 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Stein Family
Reference Number: 2019.796.45
Copyright: © Lenore G. Tawney Foundation

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Weaving beyond the Bauhaus, Aug. 3, 2019-Feb. 17, 2020.

The artist (died 2007); given to Ethel Stein, New York (died 2018), 1990; by descent to her son, Carl Stein, New York; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

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