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: 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 (Mar. 1970): fig. 1.
Bernard Kester, Ritual Forms of Claire Zeisler in Craft Horizons (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; traveled to Richard Feigen Gallery, NY, Mar. 2–21, 1969.
Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Textile Acquisitions since 1967, July 10, 1972–Apr. 30, 1973.
Art Institute of Chicago, Claire Zeisler-A Retrospective, Feb. 10–May 20, 1979.

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 permanent receipt RX6704, Oct. 23, 1968; copies in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1968.

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