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.
- Hand-woven Sample (USA), ca. 1945
- cotton, linen, metallic.
- Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
- 1948-85-7
- Hand-woven Sample (USA)
- cotton, jute, metallic strip.
- Gift of Anni Albers.
- 1948-93-1
- This object is part of the Textiles collection.
- Hand-woven Sample (USA)
- linen.
- Gift of Anni Albers.
- 1953-180-2
- Hand-woven Sample (USA)
- cotton.
- Gift of Anni Albers.
- 1953-180-10
- Sample, Dividing curtain for Harvard Graduate Center double bedroom
- cotton, bast.
- Gift of Anni Albers.
- 1953-208-2
- Hand-woven Sample For Drapery Material (USA), ca. 1948
- silk, cotton, metallic.
- Gift of Anni Albers.
- 1953-208-3
- Sample, Bedspread for Harvard Graduate Center double bedroom
- cotton, linen.
- Gift of Anni Albers.
- 1953-208-4
- Textile (USA)
- cotton, silk.
- Gift of Anni Albers.
- 1967-55-5
- Textile, Dividing curtain for Harvard Graduate Center double bedroom
- linen, cotton.
- Gift of Anni Albers.
- 1967-55-1
- Textile, Drapery material woven for Rena Rosenthal's Madison Avenue store
- cotton, cellophane, rayon.
- Gift of Anni Albers.
- 1967-55-2
- Textile (USA)
- cotton, plastic strips, lurex (colored film-coated foil).
- Gift of Anni Albers.
- 1967-55-3
- Panel, Study for Ford Foundation wall panels
- linen.
- Gift of Sheila Hicks.
- 1969-25-1
- Textile, Phare de Stiff
- silk, cotton.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 2006-13-1
- Textile, Rallo
- wool.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 2006-13-2
- Textile, Olympic Bravery
- synthetic metallic fiber, wool.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 2006-13-3
- Textile, Moudang
- stainless steel.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 2006-13-4
- Textile, Forêt Bleue II
- synthetic fiber, cotton.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 2006-13-5
- Textile, Kilometer 177 ½
- cotton, leather, silk, linen, wool.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 2006-13-6
- Textile, Quarry Spider
- cotton, handmade japanese rice paper.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 2006-13-7
- Textile, Rapprochement
- stainless steel fiber.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 2006-13-9-a,b
- Textile, Moresque
- cotton, wool, silk.
- Gift of Anonymous Donor.
- 2006-14-1
- Textile, Cicatrices
- silk, mohair.
- Gift of Anonymous Donor.
- 2006-14-2
- Textile, The Portuguese Synagogue
- cotton, linen, silk, wool.
- Gift of Anonymous Donor.
- 2006-14-3
- Textile, Escribiendo con Textura (Writing with Texture)
- unbleached cotton.
- Gift of Anonymous Donor.
- 2006-14-4
- Textile, Sausa (Willow)
- cotton, wool.
- Gift of Anonymous Donor.
- 2006-14-5
- Textile, Papillon
- synthetic fiber, color transfer paper.
- Gift of Anonymous Donor.
- 2006-14-8
- Textile, Nuage
- choma.
- Gift of Anonymous Donor.
- 2006-14-9
- Textile, Droit Gauche
- linen, razor clam shell.
- Gift of Anonymous Donor.
- 2006-31-1
- This object is part of the Textiles collection.
- Panel, Cour de Rohan
- linen.
- Gift of Itaka and Enrico Martignoni and Cristina Grajales.
- 2007-51-1
- Hanging, Prayer Wall
- linen, cotton.
- Gift of Momentum Group.
- 2013-48-1
- This object is part of the Textiles collection.
- Textile, Hitomi I
- waxed linen.
- Gift of Suzanne Demisch.
- 2016-38-1
- This object is part of the Textiles collection.
- Textile, Hitomi II, 2016
- waxed linen.
- Gift of Melvin Bedrick.
- 2016-50-1
- This object is part of the Textiles collection.
- Hanging, Binary Traces: Kay
- cotton.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 2007-33-1
- Study, Face Maps: Halfseen
- cotton.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 2007-33-2
