The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 20, 2025

Rounded rectangular, red stocking bundle wrapped in magenta yarn and green, yellow, magenta, and black sewing threads, webbing across to completely cover the top of the bundle while the red stocking shows through gaps in the threads on the sides.

Family Secrets

1991

Sheila Hicks

(American, b. 1934)
America
Unknown textile fragments wrapped with red stocking, wrapped in magenta yarn and green, yellow, magenta, and black sewing threads.
Overall: 12.1 x 25.4 x 21 cm (4 3/4 x 10 x 8 1/4 in.)
Gift of Mildred Constantine 1999.167
Location: Not on view
  • Contemporary Art Rotation - Fall 2022. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30, 2022-March 26, 2023).
  • {{cite web|title=Family Secrets|url=false|author=Sheila Hicks|year=1991|access-date=20 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1999.167