The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 17, 2025
Peppi's Flowers
1988
Location: Not on view
Description
Called Peppi as a child, Joanne Segal Brandford created this ethereal work, influenced by such historic textiles as knotless netted bags of South America and European needle laces. In her words, "as I became aware of the variety and strength of traditional netting throughout the world, I felt encouraged to continue and expand my own explorations. . . . Recently I have explored ideas of openess/closedness and of spatial ambiguity. Illusion, especially the question of shadow and substance (real/not real), has been of particular interest." Having taken Dr. Sherman Lee’s first year-long course of Far Eastern art, the donor of Peppi’s Flowers admires this museum, where Peruvian textiles can be displayed along with contemporary fiber art.- Purchased in about 1995 from an art gallery that has gone out of business.
- Hunter, Catherine K. “Who Were Joanne Segal Brandford and Lillian Elliott? The Brandford/Elliott Award.” Published in Textile Society of America 2014 Biennial Symposium Proceedings: New Directions: Examining the Past, Creating the Future, Los Angeles, California, September 10–14, 2014, Accessed 10/22/2021 from http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cbmevancott/1/
- Listed in exhibition but not illustrated: Nancy Neumann Press and Joanne Segal Brandford, Knots and Nets, Cornell University, 1988, No. 50, Collection of the artist. For related illustrated works by the artist, see Figures 47 (color, billowing in windy orchard), 48, 49.
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2004.145