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.
- Hanging, The Golden Mountain
- silk.
- Gift of Lydia Bush-Brown.
- 1974-23-1
- This object is part of the Textiles collection.
- Hanging, Syrian Pomegranate Tree, 1919–26
- silk.
- Gift of Lydia Bush-Brown.
- 1974-23-3
- Hanging, Flowering Tree
- silk.
- Gift of Lydia Bush-Brown.
- 1974-23-4
- This object is part of the Textiles collection.
- Hanging, New York Waterfront
- silk.
- Gift of Lydia Bush-Brown.
- 1974-23-6
- Hanging, Tree of Life
- silk.
- Gift of Lydia Bush-Brown.
- 1974-23-7
- This object is part of the Textiles collection.
- Hanging, Temple of the Mayan Indians
- silk.
- Gift of Lydia Bush-Brown (Mrs. Francis Head).
- 1977-77-7
- Embroidered Picture, Remembrance of the West
- wool embroidery on cotton foundation.
- Gift of Mrs. Arthur Crisp.
- 1972-63-2
- This object is part of the Textiles collection.
- Embroidered Picture, Central Park
- wool on linen.
- Gift of Mrs. Arthur Crisp.
- 1972-63-1
- This object is part of the Textiles collection.
- Embroidered Picture (USA), 1930–39
- H x W (approx.): 55 × 64.1 cm (21 5/8 × 25 1/4 in.).
- Gift of Joy L. Cartier and Lucile E. Callahan.
- 1993-34-1
- This object is part of the Textiles collection.
- Embroidered Picture (USA)
- linen, wool.
- Gift of Joy L. Cartier and Lucile E. Callahan.
- 1993-34-2
- This object is part of the Textiles collection.
- Embroidered Picture (USA)
- H x W (approx.): 61.5 x 67 cm (24 3/16 x 26 3/8 in.).
- Gift of Joy L. Cartier and Lucile E. Callahan.
- 1993-34-3
- Hanging, Four Seasons
- linen.
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Paskow.
- 1982-9-1
- Hanging, Mesa
- linen.
- This acquisition was made possible through the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.
- 1985-23-1
- Hanging, Red Royal
- silk, synthetic lining.
- Gift of Jack Lenor Larsen.
- 1985-56-1
- This object is part of the Textiles collection.
- Hanging, Carnegie's Dream
- linen, wool, metallic.
- Gift of Helena Hernmarck.
- 1985-72-1
- Hanging, First Snow
- cotton warp, wool weft.
- Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives.
- 1993-121-1
- Textile, Temple Rodef Shalom ark curtain trial
- silk, metalized plastic film wrapped around a viscose rayon core, and flat....
- Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives.
- 1993-121-5
- Hanging (USA)
- silk, synthetic metallic yarns.
- Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives.
- 1993-121-25
- Hanging, Alter Ego
- Warp x Weft: 62.2 x 55.9 cm (24 1/2 in. x 22 in.).
- Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives.
- 1993-121-36
- Hanging, Weft Face
- Warp x Weft: 91.4 x 45.7 cm (36 x 18 in.).
- Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives.
- 1993-121-37
- Hanging, Starlight
- Warp x Weft: 91.4 x 64.8 cm (36 in. x 25 1/2 in.).
- Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives.
- 1993-121-39
- Hanging, Victoriana
- Warp x Weft: 114.3 x 139.7 cm (45 x 55 in.).
- Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives.
- 1993-121-40
- Hanging, Houses on a Street
- cotton.
- Gift of Lydia Van Gelder.
- 1996-47-1
- Study Sample, Houses on a Street
- cotton.
- Gift of Lydia Van Gelder.
- 1996-47-2
- Textile, Study for Houses on a Street
- cotton.
- Gift of Lydia Van Gelder.
- 1996-47-3
- Hanging, Near East # 2
- linen.
- Gift of S.C.Johnson & Son, Inc..
- 1980-18-1
- Hanging (USA)
- linen.
- Gift of Mary Walker Phillips.
- 1998-38-1
- Hanging, The Creature
- linen.
- Gift of Mary Walker Phillips.
- 1998-38-2
- Hanging, More Variations
- linen, handspun silk.
- Gift of Mary Walker Phillips.
- 1998-38-3
- Hanging (USA)
- viscose rayon, wool, cotton.
- 1959-67-5
- This object is part of the Textiles collection.
- Panel (USA)
- cotton, rayon? metal strip.
- Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
- 1998-55-1
- Panel (USA), 1950s
- cotton, rayon, metallic thread.
- Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
- 1998-55-2
- Handwoven Sample For A Wall Covering (USA), ca. 1945
- linen, cellophane, paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
- 1948-85-2
- Hand-woven Sample For Drapery Fabric (USA)
- silk, cotton, metallic.
- Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
- 1948-85-4
- Sample For Drapery Material (USA)
- cotton, rayon, metallic.
- Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
- 1948-85-5
