Mask with Horse Hair (Hanging)

Textiles

c. 1967

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

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Lenore Tawney
Title: Mask with Horse Hair (Hanging)
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.: Made 1957–1977
Medium: Linen, warp-faced weft-ribbed plain weave; embellished with knotted grass fringe, stone and shell beads, and metal foil rectangles secured by knotted lengths of linen threads; suspended from knotted main warp; bottom edged with main warp cut fringe knotted with horsehair
Dimensions: 89.7 × 33.3 cm (35 1/4 × 13 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Tiffany Blake
Reference Number: 1969.108
Copyright: © Lenore G. Tawney Foundation

Kathleen Nugent Mangan, ed. Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective, exh. cat. (New York: Rizzoli and the American Craft Museum, 1900), 28, 145, cat. no. 32 (ill.).
Mona Schieren, “‘Every Moment Is a Moment of Learning’—Lenore Tawney, New Bauhaus, and American Impulses,” bauhaus imaginista Journal, Edition 2: Learning From (June 8, 2018) [https://www.bauhaus-imaginista.org/articles/2623/every-moment-is-a-moment-of-learning]

New York, American Craft Museum, Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective, Apr. 18-June 21, 1990, cat.; 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.

Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago, by June2, 1969 [invoice, June 2, 1969; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1969.

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