Artworks · Lenore Tawney

Portrait Collage Postcard

1997 · Pen and black ink and watercolor and feather collage

17.2 × 12.1 cm (6 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Envelope and Collage

1990 · Pen and black ink and collage

Envelope with contents: 10.2 × 19.4 × 0.6 cm (4 × 7 5/8 × 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Bride Has Entered

1982 · Cotton, plain weave; painted with pigment and gold leaf; attached linen threads in grid pattern

176.5 × 177.6 × 213.3 cm (69 1/2 × 69 7/8 × 84 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (#34)

1977 · Wooden box, covered with manuscript pages; feathers

13.8 × 24.8 × 10.7 cm (5 1/2 × 9 3/4 × 4 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (#32)

1976 · Cigar box, covered with manuscript pages; perforated and strung with linen threads; nutshells

18 × 26 × 14 cm (7 1/8 × 10 1/4 × 5 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Waters Above the Firmament

1976 · Linen, warp-faced weft-ribbed plain weave with discontinuous wefts; 18th/19th century manuscript pages cut into strips, attached, and painted with Liquitex acrylic paint; braided, knotted, and cut warp fringe

397.6 × 369 cm (156 1/2 × 145 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Gnamon 2.10.72

1972 · Ink with bone on paper

7 5/8 x 7 5/8" (19.4 x 19.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Card

1970 · Perforated paper; embroidered with linen in running stitches; cut to form surface pile; regularly placed holes with fringe

16.6 × 12.8 cm (6 1/2 × 5 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Fiber Construction

1970 · Gesso, paint, and ink on cotton, plain weave; knotted linen threads

47.7 × 20.3 cm (18 3/4 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Box with Bone and Stone

1970 · Box covered with manuscript pages (ink on paper); inside: rock on plexiglas cylinder; in lid: piece of bone

8.8 × 13.3 × 9.8 cm (3 1/2 × 5 1/4 × 3 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Child's Shoe Last

1969 · Wood and metal covered with torn papers with ink

5.1 × 14.1 × 5.8 cm (2 × 5 1/2 × 2 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Form Infolded #117

1969 · Ink, sparrow feathers and watercolor paint on paper; mounted on linen, plain weave; over stretchers; plexiglas box

19 × 8.9 × 20.3 cm (7 1/2 × 3 1/2 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Little River

1968 · Linen

91 1/2 x 21" (232.4 x 53.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Shield

1967 · Linen, warp-faced weft-ribbed plain weave; embellished with sparrow feathers; wooden rods; braided warp fringe embellished with whelk egg cases and warp fringe knotted to silk

78.7 × 25.4 cm (31 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Connoissance

1967 · Pen and black ink, over collage of letterpress in black ink on tan wove papers, torn, and color lithographs on off-white wove paper, cut, and pasted onto tan laid paper book page with letterpress, laid down on two cream wove paper book pages with letterpress in black

17.1 × 20 cm (6 3/4 × 7 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Seed Circle

1967 · Ink on corks and seeds on book pages

7 1/4 x 9" (18.4 x 22.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

2 am 2-7-67

1967 · Ink, colored pencil, and pencil on printed book pages

8 1/2 x 10 3/4" (21.6 x 27.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

"Assemblage"

1966 · Ink on paper, mounted on linen, plain weave; in plexiglas box

26 × 23.5 × 6.7 cm (10 1/4 × 9 1/4 × 2 5/8 in.)

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Underwater Wind

1965 · Linen, silk and wood, slit tapestry weave with wrapped, cut fringe; embellished with feathers; silk and linen knotted fringes

122 × 40.8 cm (48 × 16 in.)

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Red Circle

1964 · Pen and black and red inks on cream wove graph tracing paper

45.4 × 40.4 cm (17 7/8 × 15 15/16 in.)

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The Poet

1963 · Linen, plain weave; open work; open warp; knotted and braided fringes

223.5 × 54 cm (88 × 21 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Dark River

1962 · Linen and wood

164 x 22 1/2" (416.6 x 57.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Two Forces Meeting and Opposing (Hanging)

1959 · Linen, wool, silk, rayon, nylon and acetate, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts

190 × 79.8 cm (75 1/8 × 31 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Landscape

1958 · Silk, cotton, bast fibers (probably linen), and rayon, plain weave with discontinuous wefts and exposed warps; knotted warp fringe over wooden pole wrapped with linen, plain weave

142.6 × 66.5 cm (56 1/8 × 26 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Yellows

1958 · Wool, linen, cotton, and silk, plain weave with discontinuous weft open warp areas; knotted warp fringe; feathers

216.7 × 144.5 cm (85 1/4 × 56 7/8 in.)

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Mask with Horse Hair (Hanging)

1957 · Linen, warp-faced weft-ribbed plain weave; embellished with knotted grass fringe, stone and shell beads, and metal foil rectangles secured by knotted lengths of linen threads; suspended from knotted main warp; bottom edged with main warp cut fringe knotted with horsehair

89.7 × 33.3 cm (35 1/4 × 13 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Shield

1957 · Linen, warp-faced weft-ribbed plain weave with discontinuous wefts; knotted and wrapped warp fringe; embellished with cardinal feathers; wooden rods

40.8 × 17.4 cm (16 1/8 × 6 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Water Birds Hanging

1956 · Cotton, wool, silk, wild silk, cotton (mercerized), cellulose acetate, rayon, and linen, plain weave with discontinuous wefts; cut and knotted warp fringe

208 × 135.3 cm (81 7/8 × 53 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Three Angels

1954 · Linen, wool, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton, silk, cotton, metal-foil-laminated in cellulose acetate film-wrapped rayon, and rayon-and-nylon, tapestry weave

67 × 63.5 cm (26 3/8 × 25 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Young Women

1954 · Linen, wool, nylon, silk, rayon-and-metal-foil-laminated in cellulose acetate film-wrapped rayon, nylon-, wool-, and metal-strip laminated in cellulose acetate film, and cotton-and-metal film, plain weave with discontinuous wefts; main warp fringe; backed with cotton, velveteen

44.7 × 32 cm (17 5/8 × 12 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1947 · Ceramic

33.1 × 17.8 × 8.9 cm (13 × 7 × 3 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1947 · Ceramic

24.8 × 21.6 × 11.5 cm (9 3/4 × 8 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1947 · Ceramic

With base: 35 × 10.2 × 5.1 cm (13 3/4 × 4 × 2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago