The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 18, 2025

Horizontally elongated needlework with gold-brown clusters of crater-like protrusions in a cellular pattern on a linen background. The largest craters are near the central left, with each crater rimmed by a grey-brown thread. The asymmetrical work shifts between looser and more densely packed areas with the edge of the overall organic shape outlined with fringe.

Fiber Frieze

1976

Evelyn Svec Ward

(American, 1921–1989)
America
needle-manipulated fiber; burlap, cotton floss and linen threads on natural linen
Overall: 52.7 x 153.3 x 12.7 cm (20 3/4 x 60 3/8 x 5 in.)
Gift of William E. Ward in memory of his wife, Evelyn Svec Ward 2001.118
Location: Not on view
  • Evelyn Svec Ward Entry Card to 1976 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
    Ward, Evelyn Svec, and William E. Ward. Evelyn Svec Ward: Retrospective. Westerville, Ohio: Otterbein College, 1990. p. 28
  • Evelyn Svec Ward Retrospective. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1990-February 3, 1991).
    The May Show: 57th Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists and Craftsmen of The Western Reserve. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1976-January 2, 1977).
  • {{cite web|title=Fiber Frieze|url=false|author=Evelyn Svec Ward|year=1976|access-date=18 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2001.118