Lenore Tawney

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Lenore Tawney (born Leonora Agnes Gallagher May 10, 1907 in Lorain , Ohio ; died September 24, 2007 in New York City ) was an American textile artist .

Life

Leonora Gallagher moved to Chicago in 1927 and worked as a proofreader for a court. In evening classes she attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago . In 1941 she married the psychologist George Tawney, who, however, died in 1943. From 1943 to 1945 she studied art at the University of Illinois . From 1946 she attended László Moholy-Nagy's Chicago Institute of Design (“New Bauhaus”). There she studied with the sculptor Alexander Archipenko , in 1947/1948 also in his studio in Woodstock , the painter Emerson Woelffer and in 1949 weaving with the textile artist Marli Ehrman . She lived in Paris from 1949 to 1951 and traveled to Europe, the Middle East and North Africa until 1957. In 1955 she made free chain web experiments . Since 1957 she worked in New York City and lived in Lower Manhattan , in the neighborhood of Robert Indiana and Ellsworth Kelly . Yousuf Karsh portrayed them in 1959. There she was friends with Agnes Martin , who wrote an introduction to the exhibition brochure for her first exhibition in 1961. Martin's Hommage to Greece, owned by the Tawney Foundation, was auctioned at Christie's in 2011 for over USD 1.8 million . In 1964 she studied jacquard weaving at the Philadelphia Textile Institute .

She did jobs for tapestries , with which large rooms were designed, and for a parochet . In addition to these textile installations, she began to mount small-format collages on postcards in the 1960s and have them transported by the US Mail .

In 1975 she was elected to the American Craftmen's Council . In 1976 she gave up working on the loom, but not her artistic work.

She was able to exhibit her works repeatedly; In 1990 a retrospective was shown at the American Craft Museum . The Museum of Modern Art , the Metropolitan Museum of Art , the Art Institute of Chicago and the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum have works by her in their holdings. In 1983 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women's Caucus for Art .

Literature / exhibitions

  • Tawney, Lenore . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 443 .
  • Sigrid Wortmann Weltge: Bauhaus textiles: art and artists in the weaving workshop . Translation from the American. Schaffhausen: Ed. Stemmle, 1993, pp. 182, 205
  • Sheila Hicks; Lenore Tawney; Clair Zeisler: Woven forms . Zurich: Museum of Applied Arts, 1964
  • Kathleen Nugent Mangan (Ed.): Lenore Tawney: a retrospective . American Craft Museum, New York. New York: Rizzoli, 1990
  • Kathleen Nugent Mangan, Liesbeth Crommelin (Eds.): Lenore Tawney . Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1996
  • Lenore Tawney: Signs on the Wind, Postcard Collages . San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sigrid Wortmann Weltge: Bauhaus textiles , 1993, p 205
  2. ↑ Hommage to Greece , at Christie's, May 11, 2011
  3. ↑ Past Honor Awards Recipients  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at wca@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.nationalwca.org  
personal data
SURNAME Tawney, Lenore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American textile artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Lorain (Ohio)
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 2007
Place of death New York City