Collection Highlights: Women Artists: Textiles
Throughout the 20th century, women artists explored the purely artistic possibilities of traditional textile techniques like weaving, knitting, embroidery, and dyeing. While the practice is most closely associated with the Fiber Arts movement of the 1950s – 1970s, and with artists like Lenore Tawney and Sheila Hicks, it began long before with the expressive embroideries of Mariska Karasz and Marguerite Zorach and continues to the present day.
- Hanging, Rush Hour 2/Shanghai
- cotton.
- Museum purchase through gift of Wolf-Gordon, Maleyne M. Syracuse and Michael....
- 2014-15-1
- Hanging (USA)
- wool embroidery on linen foundation.
- Gift of Richard H. Frost.
- 1996-112-1
- Hanging, Sailors Take Warning
- silk, chenille.
- 1956-84-1
- Runner (USA)
- pongee silk warp, silk weft.
- 1956-84-2
- Runner (USA)
- silk.
- 1956-84-3
- Hanging, The Pigeons
- linen.
- Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund.
- 1959-143-1
- Hanging, Shells IV
- linen.
- Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund.
- 1959-143-2
- Hanging, Doves
- linen.
- Gift of Elizabeth Gordon.
- 1964-24-54
- Hanging, Composition in Squares
- linen and cotton.
- Gift of Elizabeth Gordon.
- 1964-24-36
- Textile, Calla Lily
- silk, cotton, wool and synthetics.
- Gift of Elizabeth Gordon.
- 1964-24-38
- Hanging, Fields from the Air
- linen, wool, cotton.
- Gift of Elizabeth Gordon.
- 1964-24-39
- This object is part of the Textiles collection.
- Panel (USA)
- wool and cotton on linen ground.
- Gift of Elizabeth Gordon.
- 1964-35-14
- Panel (USA)
- silk, metal, cotton, alpaca (?).
- Gift of William E. Katzenbach.
- 1965-9-1
- Hanging (USA)
- H x W: 59.1 x 48.6 cm (23 1/4 x 19 1/8 in.).
- Gift of Friends of Eve Peri.
- 1965-54-1
- Hanging Panel, Many Mansions
- W (rolled): 137 cm (53 15/16 in.).
- Gift of Oren L. Brown in memory of Julia Lukas.
- 1993-2-1
- This object is part of the Textiles collection.
- Embroidered Picture, Victoriana
- wool.
- Gift of Solveig Cox and Rosamond Berg, the artist's daughter.
- 1977-45-1
- This object is part of the Textiles collection.
- Wall Hanging (USA)
- H x W: 254 × 201 cm (8 ft. 4 in. × 6 ft. 7 1/8 in.).
- Gift of Mrs. Tinka Topping.
- 1993-5-1
- This object is part of the Textiles collection.
- Hanging, Röd Crocus (Red Crocus)
- linen warp, wool and linen weft.
- Gift of Elizabeth Gordon.
- 1964-24-41
- This object was made by Märta Måås-Fjetterström.
- This object is part of the Textiles collection.
- There are 6 images of this object.
- Hanging, Motley Birds
- wool.
- Gift of Elizabeth Gordon.
- 1964-24-44
- Hanging, Finnish Forest
- wool.
- Gift of Elizabeth Gordon.
- 1964-24-45
- Hanging, Profiles
- wool, synthetic.
- Gift of Elizabeth Gordon.
- 1964-24-47
- Hanging, Evening
- wool.
- Gift of Elizabeth Gordon.
- 1964-24-48
- Hanging, White Veil
- wool and synthetic fibers.
- Gift of Elizabeth Gordon.
- 1964-24-83
- Hanging, Grandmother and Children with Tulips
- wool.
- Gift of Elizabeth Gordon.
- 1964-24-51
- Wall Hanging, Kaislikko
- wool.
- Gift of Andrew Van Styn from the estate of Don Magner.
- 2019-28-98
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Hanging, Spring Thaw
- linen, wool, goat hair.
- Gift of Elizabeth Gordon.
- 1964-24-64
- This object is part of the Textiles collection.
- Hanging, Vitae
- linen, wool, silk.
- Gift of Elizabeth Gordon.
- 1964-24-65
- Hanging, Reflections
- warp: red = linen, orange and pink = cotton, orange and yellow = silk, wefts:....
- Gift of Elizabeth Gordon.
- 1964-24-66
- This object is part of the Textiles collection.
- Hanging, Cross
- linen.
- 1964-57-2
- Hanging, Seed
- linen, wild cotton, handspun wool.
- Gift of Lenore Tawney.
- 1964-66-1
- Hanging, Bird Square No. 2
- linen, feathers.
- Gift of Lenore Tawney.
- 1964-65-1
- Hanging, Number XXIV
- linen.
- Gift of Lenore Tawney.
- 1964-66-2
- Hanging, Mourning Dove
- linen, feathers.
- Gift of Lenore Tawney.
- 1964-66-3
- Panel (USA)
- silk.
- Gift of Elizabeth Gordon.
- 1964-35-1
- This object is part of the Textiles collection.
- Hanging, The Waves
- linen, straw, bamboo.
- Museum purchase through gift of Emily Howland Chauncey.
- 1969-158-1
- Hanging (Chile)
- linen, cotton lining.
- Gift of Inge Duxi.
- 1971-37-1