The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

M’hamid

M’hamid

1970
(American, b. 1934)
America, 20th century
tapestry weaving: silk, vicuna, razor clam shell
Overall: 23.5 x 17.8 cm (9 1/4 x 7 in.)
Gift of Mildred Constantine 1992.358
Location: 224A Contemporary Corridor

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. 26
    Danto, Arthur C., Sheila Hicks, Joan Simon, Nina Stritzler-Levine, and Irma Boom. Sheila Hicks: Weaving As Metaphor. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. p. 170-1, 405, 413
    Simon, Joan, Sheila Hicks, Susan C. Faxon, and Whitney Chadwick. Sheila Hicks: 50 Years. Andover, Mass: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, 2010.
  • Contemporary Art Rotation - Spring 2024. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 12-October 20, 2024).
    Sheila Hicks: Fifty Years. Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA (organizer) (November 5, 2010-February 27, 2011); Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA (March 25-August 7, 2011); Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC (October 1, 2011-January 29, 2012).
    Sheila Hicks, Small Works: Substance of Illusion, 1956-2006. Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, New York, NY (organizer) (July 11-October 8, 2006).
    Small Works in Fiber: The Collection of Mildred Constantine. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-March 28, 1993).
  • {{cite web|title=M’hamid|url=false|author=Sheila Hicks|year=1970|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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