Free Standing Yellow by Claire Zeisler
Art Institute of Chicago

Free Standing Yellow

Claire Zeisler · 1968

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago, 1968 [Claire Zeisler's Forms from Fiber 1968]; sold to Mildred and Abel Fagen, Lake Forest, IL, 1968 [documentation in curatorial object file]; by descent to their sons David Lawrence Fagen, Palo Alto, CA, Richard Rees Fagen, and Edward A. Fagen, from Oct. 10, 1982 [documentation from donors in curatorial object file; incoming receipt, June 11, 1985; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1985.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Chicago, Richard Feigen Gallery, Claire Zeisler’s Forms from Fiber, Sept. 18–Oct. 19, 1968; New York, Richard Feigen Gallery, Mar. 2–21, 1969, no cat.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Claire Zeisler-A Retrospective, February 10–May 20, 1979, cat. 13.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Contemporary Fiber Art: A Selection from the Permanent Collection, Nov. 3, 2010–May 8, 2011, no cat.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Weaving Beyond the Bauhaus, Aug. 3, 2019–Feb. 17, 2020.

Literature

Published references

  • Whitney Halstead, "Claire Ziesler and the Sculpted Knot," Craft Horizons vol. XXVIII, no. 5 (Sep./Oct. 1968): cover (detail), 15 (ill.).
  • Dona Z. Meilach, Macramé, Creative Design in Knotting (New York: Crown Publishers, 1971), 122–23, 129, 148 (ill.), as Yellow Presence.
  • Rich Mathews, “A Review: Claire Zeisler,” Fiberarts: The Magazine of Textiles 4, 1 (Jan./Feb. 1977): 12–13.
  • Christa C. Mayer Thurman, ed., Claire Zeisler–A Retrospective, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1979), 42–43, cat. 13 (ill.).
  • Christa C. Mayer Thurman, Contemporary Fiber Art, A Selection from the Permanent Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2010), 52 [exhibition installation]. [limited printing]

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