Black Tuesday

Textiles

1968

Claire Zeisler (American, 1903-1991)
Chicago, Illinois, United States

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Claire Zeisler
Title: Black Tuesday
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; square knotted with cascading ends; wool pile
Dimensions: 254 × 162.6 × 124.5 cm (100 × 64 × 49 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Borg-Warner Corporation
Reference Number: 1988.483

Thomas Willis, “When String or Rope Becomes Art,” Chicago Tribune (Sept. 15, 1968) (ill.).
Whitney Halsted, “Claire Zeisler and the Sculptured Knot, Craft Horizons 28, no. 5 (Sept.–Oct. 1968): 15 (ill.).
Sculpture. Sculpture? Sculpture!, exh. cat. (Highland Park, IL: Ravinia Festival, 1969), cat. 45 (not ill.).
University of Notre Dame Contemporary Arts Festival, Contemporary Arts in the Midwest (South Bend, IL: University of Notre Dame, 1970), cat. 44.
Artweek, 2, 11 (Mar. 13, 1971): 1 (ill.).
Barbara Kastern, “Fiber Sculpture,” Art Week , 2, 12 (Mar. 20, 1971): 8.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, American Crafts (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1977), 38, 44 (ill.).
Museum of Art, Washington State University, Diverse Directions: The Fiber Arts (Pullman, WA: Washington State University, 1978), cat. 39.
Christa C. Mayer Thurman, ed., Claire Zeisler–A Retrospective, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1979), 36–37, cat. 10 (ill.).
Janelle Porter, ed., Fiber Sculpture 1960-Present (Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and DelMonico Books , 2014), 11 (ill. in Borg-Warner Coporation offices).

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.
Highland Park, IL, Ravinia Festival, Sculpture. Sculpture? Sculpture! Summer, 1969.
South Bend, IN, University of Notre Dame Contemporary Arts Festival, Contemporary Art in the Midwest, 1970.
Oakland, CA, California College of Arts and Crafts Gallery, Dimension in Fiber, Mar. 4–9, 1971.
New York, Hadler Galleries, Claire Zeisler, Nov. 20, 1976–Jan. 8, 1977.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, American Crafts 1977, Oct. 3–30, 1977.
Philadelphia, PA, Memorial Hall, The Philadelphia Craft Show, Nov. 3–6, 1977.
Pullman, WA, Museum of Art, Washington State University, Diverse Directions: The Fiber Arts, Oct.13–Nov. 17, 1978; Seattle, The Henry Gallery, University of Washigton, Dex 17, 1978-Jan. 28, 1979, cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Claire Zeisler–A Retrospective, Feb. 10–May 20, 1979, cat. 10.

With Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago [Claire Zeisler’s Forms from Fiber 1968]. Hadler/Rodriguez Galleries, New York, and Houston, TX, by 1979 [Eiverse Directions: The Fiber Arts 1978]. Borg-Warner Corporation, Chicago, by 1988 [incoming receipt RX17362, Aug. 12, 1988; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1988.

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