Art Institute of Chicago

Black Tuesday

Claire Zeisler · 1968

Provenance

Ownership history

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.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

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.

Literature

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).

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