Linen Lean-To
Sheila Hicks conceived this work after a winter trip to Normandy, France. She successfully recreated the effect of snow piled high on the rooftops by overlapping layers of tassels made from bleached linen thread to produce a luxuriantly thick, soft-white relief.
Artwork Details
- Title: Linen Lean-To
- Designer: Sheila Hicks (American, born Hastings, Nebraska, 1934)
- Date: designed 1967–68; executed 1985
- Medium: Linen
- Dimensions: 59 1/8 × 82 3/4 × 6 in. (150.2 × 210.2 × 15.2 cm)
- Classification: Textiles-Tapestries
- Credit Line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1986
- Object Number: 1986.7
- Rights and Reproduction: © Atelier Sheila Hicks
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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