Red Preview

Textiles

1969

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

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Claire Zeisler
Title: Red Preview
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 1969
Medium: Jute, flanges square knotted and wrapped; cascading ends
Dimensions: 240 × 150 cm (96 × 60 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Claire Zeisler
Reference Number: 1979.294

Sculpture. Sculpture? Sculpture!, exh. cat. (Highland Park, IL: Ravinia Festival, 1969), cat. 46 (not ill.).
Dona Z. Meilach, Macramé, Creative Design in Knotting (New York: Crown Publishers, 1971), 128 (ill.).
Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Craftsmen’s Council, Sculpture in Fiber, exh. cat. (New York: American Craft Council, 1972), (ill.).
Mildred Constantine and Jack Lenor Larsen, Beyond Craft: The Art of Fabric (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1972), 290.
Imelda DeGraw, Fibre Structures: An Exhibition of Contemporary Textiles, exh. cat. (Denver: Denver Art Museum, 1972) cat. 51.
Chicago Public Library, Masterpieces of Recent Chicago Art, exh. cat. (Chicago: Chicago Public Library, 1977), cat. 64.
Diane Kirkpatric, Charles Lewis, and Cynthia Yao, eds., Chicago: The City and Its Artists, 1945-1978, exh. cat. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1978), cat. 35.
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: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1979), 46-47.
Christopher Lyon, A Woman of Fiber, Chicago Magazine (Nov. 1985): 161 (ill.).
Cynthia Fowler, “A Sign of the Times: Sheila Hicks, the Fiber Arts Movement, and the Language of Liberation,” The Journal of Modern Craft 2, 1 (Mar. 2014): 8, 33-52, fig, 2.

Highland Park, IL, Ravinia Festival, Sculpture. Sculpture? Sculpture!, Summer 1969, cat.
New York, Museum of Contemporary Crafts of The American Craftsmen’s Council, Sculpture in Fiber, Jan. 27–Apr. 2, 1972, cat.
Denver Art Museum, Fibre Structures: An Exhibition of Contemporary Textiles, May 9–June 18, 1972, cat..
Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Masterpieces of Recent Chicago Art, Oct. 3–Nov. 2, 1977, cat.
Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Chicago: The City and Its Artists, 1945–1978, Mar. 17–Apr. 28, 1978, cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Claire Zeisler-A Retrospective, Feb. 10–May 20, 1979, cat.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Claire Zeisler: Works from 1962–1984, Dec. 12, 1984–Mar. 12, 1985.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Art in Chicago, 1945–1995, Nov. 16, 1996–Mar. 23, 1997.

The artist, Chicago [Incoming receipt RX11920, Jan. 26, 1979; letter from the artist, June 15, 1979; copies in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, May 1979.

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