Two Forces Meeting and Opposing (Hanging)

Textiles

1959

Lenore Tawney (American, 1907–2007)
United States

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Lenore Tawney
Title: Two Forces Meeting and Opposing (Hanging)
Place: United States (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 1959
Medium: Linen, wool, silk, rayon, nylon and acetate, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts
Inscriptions: Handwritten on label sewn on reverse: TWO FORCES MEETING AND OPPOSING L. TAWNEY 1959
Dimensions: 190 × 79.8 cm (75 1/8 × 31 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Tiffany Blake
Reference Number: 1969.97
Copyright: © Lenore G. Tawney Foundation

Kathleen Nugent Mangan, ed., Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective (New York: American Craft Museum, 1990), 144, cat. 10 (not ill).

Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Textile Acquisitions Since 1967, July 10, 1972–Apr. 30, 1973.
New York, American Craft Museum, Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective, Apr. 18-June 21, 1990, cat. no. 10; traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 26-Oct. 28, 1990; and Washington, D.C., Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Apr. 12-July 21, 1991; New York and Chicago only.

Marna Johnson, Chicago, by Mar. 29, 1969 [letter from Marna Johnson; Mar. 29, 1969; invoice, May 3, 1969; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago.

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