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Yellows
Lenore Tawney
Wool, linen, cotton, and silk, plain weave with discontinuous weft open warp areas; knotted warp fringe; feathers · 1958
Art Institute of Chicago

Mask with Horse Hair (Hanging)
Lenore Tawney
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 · 1957
Art Institute of Chicago

Shield
Lenore Tawney
Linen, warp-faced weft-ribbed plain weave with discontinuous wefts; knotted and wrapped warp fringe; embellished with cardinal feathers; wooden rods · 1957
Art Institute of Chicago

Water Birds Hanging
Lenore Tawney
Cotton, wool, silk, wild silk, cotton (mercerized), cellulose acetate, rayon, and linen, plain weave with discontinuous wefts; cut and knotted warp fringe · 1956
Art Institute of Chicago

Three Angels
Lenore Tawney
Linen, wool, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton, silk, cotton, metal-foil-laminated in cellulose acetate film-wrapped rayon, and rayon-and-nylon, tapestry weave · 1954
Art Institute of Chicago

Young Women
Lenore Tawney
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 · 1954
Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled
Lenore Tawney
Ceramic · 1947
Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled
Lenore Tawney
Ceramic · 1947
Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled
Lenore Tawney
Ceramic · 1947
Art Institute of Chicago