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Title:Triune
Designer:Lenore Tawney (American, Lorain, Ohio 1907–2007 New York)
Date:1961
Medium:Linen, wool, and silk
Dimensions:9 ft. 1 1/2 in. × 8 ft. 8 in. (278.1 × 264.2 cm)
Classification:Textiles-Tapestries
Credit Line:Purchase, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Gift, 1983
Object Number:1983.22
the designer, New York (1961–83; sold to MMA)
Lincoln. University of Nebraska Art Galleries. "Contemporary Hand Weaving IV," October 8–November 5, 1961, no. 5 (listed as not for sale).
New York. Museum of Contemporary Crafts. "Collaboration: Artist and Architect," March 16–May 13, 1962, no. 54.
Fine Arts Pavilion, Seattle World's Fair. "Northwest Art Today: Adventures in Art," April–October 1962, unnumbered cat. (p. 102; lent by the artist).
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. "Eight by Eight: American Craftsmen," March 3–31, 1963, no. 1.
Brookfield, Conn. Brookfield Craft Center. "Lenore Tawney: A Personal World," June 18–September 4, 1978, unnumbered cat. (courtesy Hadler Galleries, NYC).
New York. Hadler Galleries. "Lenore Tawney: A Personal World," September 22–October 29, 1978, unnumbered cat.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Design and Architecture Since World War II: Selections from the Collection," July 6–Fall 1988, no catalogue.
New York. American Craft Museum. "Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective," April 18–June 21, 1990, no. 11.
Art Institute of Chicago. "Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective," July 26–October 28, 1990, no. 11.
Washington, D.C. Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution. "Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective," April 12–July 21, 1991, no. 11.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Modern Tapestries: 1960–1986," April 23–October 13, 1996, no catalogue.
Jack Lenor Larsen. "Lenore Tawney: Artistic Inspiration to Those Who Want to Develop Their Artistic Potential." House Beautiful 104 (March 1962), p. 175.
Hedy Backlin. "Collaboration: Artist and Architect." Craft Horizons 22 (May/June 1962), p. 34.
Mildred Constantine and Jack Lenor Larsen. Beyond Craft: The Art Fabric. New York, 1973, pp. 267, 270, ill. (color).
Betty Park. "Lenore Tawney." Craft Horizons 38 (October 1978), ill. p. 52.
Edward J. Sozanski. "Retrospective Salutes Pioneer Fiber Sculptor." Philadelphia Inquirer (June 9, 1990), p. 3-D.
Warren Seelig. "Meditative Image: The Art of Lenore Tawney." American Craft 50 (August/September 1990), p. 38.
Glenn Adamson inLenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe. Ed. Karen Patterson. Exh. cat., John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Sheboygan, Wisc., 2019, pp. 112–14, 193, ill. (color).
Christina Bryan Rosenberger. "Devotion and Solitude." Art in America 108 (May 2020), ill. p. 52 (color).
Stanley Whitney (American, born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1946)
2017
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