Art Institute of Chicago

Landscape

Lenore Tawney · 1958

Provenance

Ownership history

Marna Johnson, Chicago, by May 18, 1981 [invoice, May 18, 1981; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1981.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

New York, Staten Island Museum, Lenore Tawney, Nov. 19, 1961-Jan. 7, 1962.
Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, Selected Textile Acquisitions Since 1978, July 10–Oct. 10, 1982.
New York, American Craft Museum, Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective, Apr. 18-June 21, 1990, cat. no. 8; traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 26-Oct. 28, 1990; and Washington, D.C., Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Apr. 12-July 21, 1991; Chicago only.
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.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Weaving beyond the Bauhaus, Aug. 3, 2019-Feb. 17, 2020.

Literature

Alice Adams, "Exhibitions: LENORE TAWNEY" Craft Horizons 22, no. (1962): 39.
Lili Blumenau, Creative Design in Wall Hangings (New York: Crown Publishers, 1967), 29-30.
Kathleen Nugent Mangan, ed., Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective (New York: American Craft Museum, 1990), 144, cat. no. 8.
Christa C. Mayer Thurman, Contemporary Fiber Art, A Selection from the Permanent Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2010), 11 (ill.). [limited printing]
Rebecca McNamara, "What was before: Lenore Tawney and Her Circle, 1950-1963, Textiles Society of America, Symposium Proceedings, 1225 (2024): (ill. with detail; still from Staten Island Museum installation) https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/1225

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