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Drawn with the Wind

1988

Sheila Hicks

(American, b. 1934)
Culture
America
Medium
Silk: buttonhole stitch; synthetic monofilament; suspended on a plexiglass mount
Measurements
Overall: 21.6 x 11.4 cm (8 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.); Mounted: 25.4 x 12.7 x 13.3 cm (10 x 5 x 5 1/4 in.); Mounted, primary: 25.4 x 12.7 x 13.3 cm (10 x 5 x 5 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Vicki S. McDaniel in honor of her mother, Mildred Constantine 2009.264
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
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Sheila Hicks studied textile traditions in South America, Mexico, Morocco, and India throughout her six-decade career, and combines Indigenous techniques with modernist ideals to create her hanging fiber works.
A plexiglass mount features thin clear threads that drape down, with thicker swaths of cream thread curling across them, wrapping around and down from our left to right in wavy diagonals.

Drawn with the Wind

1988

Sheila Hicks

(American, b. 1934)
America

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