Untitled

Contemporary Art

1947-48

Lenore Tawney
American, 1907-2007

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Lenore Tawney
Title: Untitled
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
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.: 1947–1948
Medium: Ceramic
Dimensions: With base: 35 × 10.2 × 5.1 cm (13 3/4 × 4 × 2 in.)
Credit Line: Samuel A. Marx Endowment; Robert Alexander Waller Memorial Fund; through prior gifts of George F. Harding
Reference Number: 2023.1290
Copyright: © Lenore G. Tawney Foundation

Kathleen Nugent Mangan, ed., Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective, exh. cat. (New York: Rizzoli, 1990), 18 (ill.), 46 (ill.), 143.
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, In Poetry and Silence: The Work and Studio of Lenore Tawney, exh. checklist (Sheboygan, WI: John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 2019), 14, cat. 45 (color ill.).
Karen Patterson, ed., Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe, exh. cat. (Sheboygan, WI: John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 2020), 52 (ill.).

New York, American Craft Museum (now Museum of Arts and Design), Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective, Apr. 18–June 21, 1990, cat. 3; Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, July 26-Oct. 28, 1990; Washington D.C., The Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Apr.12-July 21, 1991 (New York and Chicago only).
Sheboygan, WI, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, In Poetry and Silence: The Work and Studio of Lenore Tawney, Oct. 6, 2019–Mar. 7, 2021, cat. 45.

The artist; given to Ruth and Dr. Jack Weinberg, Chicago, 1947-48 [phone conversation between Daniel Weinberg and Caitlin Haskell, August 2023, notes in curatorial object file]; by descent to Audrey and Daniel Weinberg, Highland Park, IL, 2009; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 11, 2023.

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