The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 17, 2024
Every Day Rain (recto)
1979
(American, 1907–2007)
Image: 14.8 x 10.5 cm (5 13/16 x 4 1/8 in.); Sheet: 14.8 x 10.5 cm (5 13/16 x 4 1/8 in.)
Gift of Katharine Kuh 1981.203.a
© 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. This postcard is an example of Tawney's witty unification of the theme of rain on both front and back.- 1979Lenore Tawney (the artist) [1907-2007], given to Katharine Kuh, New York, NY1979-1982Katharine Kuh [American, 1904–1994], New York, NY, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OHMarch 8, 1982-The 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).
- {{cite web|title=Every Day Rain (recto)|url=false|author=Lenore Tawney|year=1979|access-date=17 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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