Artworks

Lenore Tawney

Pen and black ink and watercolor and feather collage · 1997

Lenore Tawney

Pen and black ink and collage · 1990

Lenore Tawney

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

Lenore Tawney

Wooden box, covered with manuscript pages; feathers · 1977

Lenore Tawney

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

Lenore Tawney

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 · 1976

Lenore Tawney

Ink with bone on paper · 1972

Lenore Tawney

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

Lenore Tawney

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

Lenore Tawney

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

Lenore Tawney

Wood and metal covered with torn papers with ink · 1969

Lenore Tawney

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

Lenore Tawney

Linen · 1968

Lenore Tawney

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 · 1967

Lenore Tawney

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 · 1967

Lenore Tawney

Ink on corks and seeds on book pages · 1967

Lenore Tawney

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

Lenore Tawney

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

Lenore Tawney

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

Lenore Tawney

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

Lenore Tawney

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

Lenore Tawney

Linen and wood · 1962

Lenore Tawney

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

Lenore Tawney

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 · 1958