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Exhibition Review
Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe
08/2020 | 1409 | 162
Pages: 694-696
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Reviewer:
Cooke, Lynne (Cooke, Lynne)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
artists:
Tawney, Lenore
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, United States
subjects:
American art / Women artists / Textiles / Tapestries / Drawings / Weaving
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe Edited by Karen Patterson. 304 pp. incl. 200 col. ills. (John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan WI, and University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2019), £34. ISBN 978–0–226–66483–5. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Tawney with ‘Shadow River’, by Yousuf Karsh. 1959. Photograph. (Estate of Yousuf Karsh, New York; courtesy Camera Press, London).
Attributed works:
2. Waters above the firmament, by Lenore Tawney. 1976. Linen, warpfaced weft-ribbed plain weave with discontinuous wefts; manuscript pages cut into strips, attached, and painted with Liquitex acrylic paint; braided, knotted and cut warp fringe, 397.6 by 369 cm. (© Lenore G. Tawney Foundation; courtesy Art Institute Chicago).
Attributed works:
3. Collage chest II, by Lenore Tawney. 1974. Wood, metal and mixed media, 41.6 by 16.8 by 70.5 cm. (assembled). (Private collection; courtesy of John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan WI; photograph Rich Maciejewski).