The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 20, 2025

Ephemera Bundle

1975

Sheila Hicks

(American, b. 1934)
America
Silk: wrapping
Overall: 33.7 x 27 x 11.5 cm (13 1/4 x 10 5/8 x 4 1/2 in.)
Gift of Mildred Constantine 1992.250
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.

Description

Ephemera Bundle is part of a larger series by the pioneering fiber artist Sheila Hicks. To make these works Hicks wraps bundles of undyed and brightly dyed linen thread at random intervals to form dynamic bundles suspended in space. Like an object found in nature, this sculpture combines both structure and spontaneity. Hicks has studied textile traditions in South America, Mexico, Morocco, and India throughout her six-decade career, and combines techniques of Indigenous cultures with modernist ideals to create her fiber works.
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    Cleveland Museum of Art. Small Works in Fiber: The Mildred Constantine Collection. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. p. 27, 29
    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. 360 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).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1992.250