Art Institute of Chicago
Yellows
Lenore Tawney · 1958
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist (died, 2007), New York; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1991.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, American Craft Museum, Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective, Apr. 18-June 21, 1990, cat.; 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.
Literature
Published references
- Kathleen Nugent Mangan, ed., Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective, exh. cat. (New York: Rizzoli and the American Craft Museum, 1990), 52, 144, cat. no. 7.
- 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), 77, 80 [photograph of Tawney with Yellows in studio, Coenties Slip, New York, 1958].
- Rebecca McNamara, "What was before: Lenore Tawney and Her Circle, 1950-1963, Textiles Society of America, Symposium Proceedings, 1225 (2024): (ill.) https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/1225
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