New York / Japan. Born 1929
Obsessive pattern painting, collage, sculpture, installation
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1907 Lorain, Ohio - 2007. Known for: Assemblage, fiber art, collage, woven sculpture.
Fiber artist Lenore Tawney, born in Lorain, Ohio, became an influential figure in the development of woven sculpture as an art medium. Her introduction to the tenets of the German Bauhaus* school and... Read full biography
Fiber artist Lenore Tawney, born in Lorain, Ohio, became an influential figure in the development of woven sculpture as an art medium. Her introduction to the tenets of the German Bauhaus* school and the artistic avant-garde came in 1946 with her attendance at Lazlo Moholy-Nagy's Chicago Institute... Read full biography
Fiber artist Lenore Tawney, born in Lorain, Ohio, became an influential figure in the development of woven sculpture as an art medium. Her introduction to the tenets of the German Bauhaus* school and the artistic avant-garde came in 1946 with her attendance at Lazlo Moholy-Nagy's Chicago Institute of Design, and study with Moholy-Nagy, cubist sculptor Alexander Archipenko and abstract-expressionist painter Emerson Woelffer. In 1949, she studied weaving with Marli Ehrmann. Destroying her clay... Read full biography
Fiber artist Lenore Tawney, born in Lorain, Ohio, became an influential figure in the development of woven sculpture as an art medium. Her introduction to the tenets of the German Bauhaus* school and the artistic avant-garde came in 1946 with her attendance at Lazlo Moholy-Nagy's Chicago Institute of Design, and study with Moholy-Nagy, cubist sculptor Alexander Archipenko and abstract-expressionist painter Emerson Woelffer. In 1949, she studied weaving with Marli Ehrmann. Destroying her clay sculpture, she moved tentatively to fiber, receiving a huge career "break" when the first pieces she made, black and white table mats, were selected by the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City, for a "Good Design" exhibition. Tawney lived in North... Read full biography
Fiber artist Lenore Tawney, born in Lorain, Ohio, became an influential figure in the development of woven sculpture as an art medium. Her introduction to the tenets of the German Bauhaus* school and the artistic avant-garde came in 1946 with her attendance at Lazlo Moholy-Nagy's Chicago Institute of Design, and study with Moholy-Nagy, cubist sculptor Alexander Archipenko and abstract-expressionist painter Emerson Woelffer. In 1949, she studied weaving with Marli Ehrmann. Destroying her clay sculpture, she moved tentatively to fiber, receiving a huge career "break" when the first pieces she made, black and white table mats, were selected by the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City, for a "Good Design" exhibition. Tawney lived in North Africa, Spain and France for a year and a half, before returning to America in 1954 to study tapestry weaving at the Penland... Read full biography
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New York / Germany. 1926 - 1987
Abstract collages, wood assemblage, textiles
Pennsylvania, New York. 1912 - 1993
Color field painting, abstract sculptures, printmaking, teaching
New York, Illinois. 1940 - 2007
Biomorphic imagery, abstract humor, collage, graphics
New York. 1917 - 2010
Abstract expressionist genre-views, non objective, collage
Michigan, California, Pennsylvania / Italy. 1915 - 1978
Sculpture-kinetic, abstract monoprint, painting, design
New York. 1903 - 1972
Assemblage-boxes, collage
New York, Maine, Illinois. Born 1932
Super real urban view painting, reflections
New York / Canada. 1949 - 2022
Conceptual art, video installations, lightbox photographs
New York. 1922 - 1997
Abstract expressionist painting, biomorph, geometric, surrealism
PA, New York, Pennsylvania, California / France. 1890 - 1976
Dada, surreal, cubist imagery
New York. 1918 - 1989
Abstract figure, genre and portrait painting
New York, Ohio. 1926 - 2009
Female symbolism, modernist caligraphy, collage
New York, California / France, Italy. 1928 - 2005
Happenings, assemblage, abstraction
Washington, New York, Wisconsin / Switzerland. 1890 - 1976
Abstract imagery, mural, illustrations
California / Italy. 1932 - 2001
Sculptor-found object, portrait
New York, Vermont, Illinois / France. 1921 - 1999
Abstract expressionist painting- fantasy
New York / Russian Federation. 1899 - 1988
Cubist monchromatic wood assemblage
New York / Germany. Born 1954
Abstract body parts sculpture-feminist issues
New York, Wyoming / Russian Federation. 1907 - 1981
Geometric abstract painting, murals, teaching
Illinois, New York. 1933 - 1992
Painting
New York / France, Italy, Switzerland. 1921 - 2006
Fantasy animal painting, abstraction
Pennsylvania / Japan. Born 1946
Abstract painting
New York, California. 1900 - 1982
Modernist views-non ob images, sculpture
Pennsylvania, New York. 1905/15 - 1990
Figure, abstract urban landscape
New York. 1923 - 2002
Modernist pop figure, word image genre painting
New York / Italy. 1914 - 1999
Droll surreal, caricature, graphics
Illinois, New York. 1930 - 2010
Expressionist abstract painting
New York, South Dakota. 1922 - 1990
Abstract minimal-color field
New York. Born 1955
Factory product pop art sculpture
France, Hungary. 1906 - 1997
Op art painting, geometric images
New York, Kansas, Missouri / France. 1923 - 2012
Abstract Expressionist painting