Collection Highlights: Women Artists: Textiles

Throughout the 20th century, women artists explored the purely artistic possibilities of traditional textile techniques like weaving, knitting, embroidery, and dyeing. While the practice is most closely associated with the Fiber Arts movement of the 1950s – 1970s, and with artists like Lenore Tawney and Sheila Hicks, it began long before with the expressive embroideries of Mariska Karasz and Marguerite Zorach and continues to the present day.

  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 2 images of this object.
  • Hanging (USA)
  • wool embroidery on linen foundation.
  • Gift of Richard H. Frost.
  • 1996-112-1
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 6 images of this object.
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 3 images of this object.
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 2 images of this object.
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 3 images of this object.
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 2 images of this object.
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 2 images of this object.
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 2 images of this object.
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 2 images of this object.
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 2 images of this object.
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
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  • Panel (USA)
  • wool and cotton on linen ground.
  • Gift of Elizabeth Gordon.
  • 1964-35-14
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 3 images of this object.
  • Panel (USA)
  • silk, metal, cotton, alpaca (?).
  • Gift of William E. Katzenbach.
  • 1965-9-1
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 2 images of this object.
  • Hanging (USA)
  • H x W: 59.1 x 48.6 cm (23 1/4 x 19 1/8 in.).
  • Gift of Friends of Eve Peri.
  • 1965-54-1
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 3 images of this object.
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
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  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • Wall Hanging (USA)
  • H x W: 254 × 201 cm (8 ft. 4 in. × 6 ft. 7 1/8 in.).
  • Gift of Mrs. Tinka Topping.
  • 1993-5-1
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 4 images of this object.
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 2 images of this object.
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 2 images of this object.
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 3 images of this object.
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 2 images of this object.
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 3 images of this object.
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
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  • Hanging, Vitae
  • linen, wool, silk.
  • Gift of Elizabeth Gordon.
  • 1964-24-65
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 2 images of this object.
  • Hanging, Reflections
  • warp: red = linen, orange and pink = cotton, orange and yellow = silk, wefts:....
  • Gift of Elizabeth Gordon.
  • 1964-24-66
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
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  • Hanging, Seed
  • linen, wild cotton, handspun wool.
  • Gift of Lenore Tawney.
  • 1964-66-1
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 3 images of this object.
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 2 images of this object.
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 4 images of this object.
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 2 images of this object.
  • Panel (USA)
  • silk.
  • Gift of Elizabeth Gordon.
  • 1964-35-1
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
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  • Hanging, The Waves
  • linen, straw, bamboo.
  • Museum purchase through gift of Emily Howland Chauncey.
  • 1969-158-1
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 7 images of this object.
  • This object is part of the Textiles collection.
  • There are 2 images of this object.