Art Institute of Chicago
Waters Above the Firmament
Lenore Tawney · 1976
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist, New York [invoice, Apr. 13, 1983; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1983.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Gift, Bequest and Purchase: A Selection of Textile Acquisitions from 1982–1987, Mar. 18–Aug. 14, 1989.
- New York, American Craft Museum, <em> Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective</em>, April 18-June 21, 1990, cat.; traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 26-Oct. 28, 1990; 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, Textile Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago's Collection, Feb. 17–May 2, 1993.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Focus on Fiber Art: Selections from the Growing 20th Century Collection, Oct. 6, 1993–Feb. 27, 1994.
- 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
- Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1982–83 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1983), 46, fig. 61.
- Christa C. Mayer Thurman, Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), 134, 136-137, 149.
- Kathleen Nugent Mangan, ed. Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective, exh. cat. (New York: Rizzoli and the American Craft Museum, 1990), 26 [photographed in Wooster Street studio, 1976], 76-77, 146, cat. 48 (ill.).
- Karen E. Paterson, ed., Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe (Sheboygan, WI: John Michael Kohler Arts Center in association with The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2019), 195 (ill.).
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