The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 21, 2024
Basket of Eggs with Envelope
1980
(American, 1907–2007)
Sheet: 13.4 x 12.1 cm (5 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.)
Gift of Katharine Kuh 1981.165
© Lenore G. Tawney Foundation
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Lenore Tawney was a pioneering fiber artist known for large-scale public installations, but her postcard collages were personal missives to close friends on an intimate scale.Description
This is one of 44 postcard collages in the CMA’s collection that the textile artist Lenore Tawney sent through the mail to her friend, the art dealer, curator, and critic Katherine Kuh between 1969 and 1981. Using natural objects and ephemera that she compiled over a lifetime, Tawney’s collages display the artist’s personal visual vocabulary and poetic response to materials. Recurring images—such as eggs, feathers, birds, baby animals, crosses, and circles—engage with universal themes such as vulnerability, resilience, infinity, and spirituality. Here, below the flower petal on the envelope Tawney wrote "the iris / its blue blood drained away."- 1980Lenore Tawney (the artist) [1907-2007]1980-82Katherine Kuh [1904-1994]March 8, 1982The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1981." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 69, no. 2 (1982) p. 82, no. 116 www.jstor.org
- Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).The Year in Review for 1981. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).
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