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Claire Zeisler · 1969
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist (1903-1991), Chicago [Incoming receipt RX11920, Jan. 26, 1979; letter from the artist, June 15, 1979; copies in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, May 1979.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Highland Park, IL, Ravinia Festival, Sculpture. Sculpture? Sculpture!, Summer 1969, cat.
- New York, Museum of Contemporary Crafts of The American Craftsmen's Council, Sculpture in Fiber, Jan. 27–Apr. 2, 1972, cat.
- Denver Art Museum, Fibre Structures: An Exhibition of Contemporary Textiles, May 9–June 18, 1972, cat..
- Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Masterpieces of Recent Chicago Art, Oct. 3–Nov. 2, 1977, cat.
- Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Chicago: The City and Its Artists, 1945–1978, Mar. 17–Apr. 28, 1978, cat.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Claire Zeisler-A Retrospective, Feb. 10–May 20, 1979, cat.
- New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Claire Zeisler: Works from 1962–1984, Dec. 12, 1984–Mar. 12, 1985.
- Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Art in Chicago, 1945–1995, Nov. 16, 1996–Mar. 23, 1997.
Literature
Published references
- Sculpture. Sculpture? Sculpture!, exh. cat. (Highland Park, IL: Ravinia Festival, 1969), cat. 46 (not ill.).
- Dona Z. Meilach, Macramé, Creative Design in Knotting (New York: Crown Publishers, 1971), 128 (ill.).
- Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Craftsmen's Council, Sculpture in Fiber, exh. cat. (New York: American Craft Council, 1972), (ill.).
- Mildred Constantine and Jack Lenor Larsen, Beyond Craft: The Art of Fabric (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1972), 290.
- Imelda DeGraw, Fibre Structures: An Exhibition of Contemporary Textiles, exh. cat. (Denver: Denver Art Museum, 1972) cat. 51.
- Chicago Public Library, Masterpieces of Recent Chicago Art, exh. cat. (Chicago: Chicago Public Library, 1977), cat. 64.
- Diane Kirkpatric, Charles Lewis, and Cynthia Yao, eds., Chicago: The City and Its Artists, 1945-1978, exh. cat. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1978), 55, 92, cat. 35 (ill.).
- Bernard Kester, Ritual Forms of Claire Zeisler in Craft Horizons (April 1979): 58-59 (Ill.)
- Christa C. Mayer Thurman, ed., Claire Zeisler-A Retrospective, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1979), 46-47.
- Christopher Lyon, A Woman of Fiber, Chicago Magazine (Nov. 1985): 161 (ill.).
- Cynthia Fowler, "A Sign of the Times: Sheila Hicks, the Fiber Arts Movement, and the Language of Liberation," The Journal of Modern Craft 2, 1 (Mar. 2014): 8, 33-52, fig, 2.
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