Breakwater

Textiles

1968

Claire Zeisler (American, 1903–1991)
Chicago, United States

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Claire Zeisler
Title: Breakwater
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 1968
Medium: Jute and wool
Dimensions: 225 × 41.3 cm (90 × 16 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. A. H. Freiler
Reference Number: 1968.771

Christa C. Mayer, “A Growing Collection of Contemporary Textiles,” Calendar of The Art Institute of Chicago 46, no. 2 (Mar. 1970): 8-9, fig. 1 (ill.).
Bernard Kester, “Ritual Forms of Claire Zeisler,” Craft Horizons 39, no. 2 (April 1979): 58-59 (ill.)
Christa C. Mayer Thurman, ed., Claire Zeisler–A Retrospective, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1979), 38–39, cat. 11 (ill.).

Chicago, Richard Feigen Gallery, Claire Zeisler’s Forms from Fiber, Sept. 18–Oct. 19, 1968.
Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Textile Acquisitions since 1967, Nov. 1, 1972–Apr. 1, 1973.
Art Institute of Chicago, Claire Zeisler-A Retrospective, Feb. 10–May 20, 1979, cat.

Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago, by Sept. 1968 [Forms from Fiber 1968]; sold to A.H. Freiler, Gencoe, IL, 1968 [correspondence from A.H. Freiler, Oct. 21, 1968; incoming receipt RX6704, Oct. 23, 1968; copies in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1968.

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