The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 21, 2025

Rick Rack, Riff Raff

1987

Sheila Hicks

(American, b. 1934)
America
Cotton thread and rickrack: hand weaving
Overall: 58 x 47.5 x 3 cm (22 13/16 x 18 11/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Gift of Mildred Constantine 1992.249
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

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 fiber works.
  • Cleveland Museum of Art. Small Works in Fiber: The Mildred Constantine Collection. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. p. 25, 43
    Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1992.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38–79. Mentioned: p. 76. no. 361 www.jstor.org
  • Contemporary Art Rotation - Spring 2024. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 12-October 20, 2024).
    Small Works in Fiber: The Collection of Mildred Constantine. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-March 28, 1993).
    Merrin Gallery, New York
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