The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of May 7, 2024

Shard

Shard

1981
(American, 1921–1989)
America, 20th century
Sisal, henequen, ixtle, cotton, and linen thread; looped and knitted, shaped and stiffened
Overall: 152.4 x 147.3 x 26.7 cm (60 x 58 x 10 1/2 in.)
Gift of Pamela Elizabeth Ward in loving memory of her parents, William E. and Evelyn Svec Ward 2005.137
Location: not on view

Description

During the mid 1950s, Ward resigned her position in the textile department at the Cleveland Museum of Art to devote full-time energy to her artistic career. In the ensuing decades she produced a steady output that creatively explored the textural effects of fiber and fabric. Shard, a large abstract relief panel, is a complex construction of threads of sisal, henequen, cotton, and linen - as well as ixtle, which she acquired in Oaxaca, Mexico, a region whose native cultures and rugged typography inspired much of her work.
  • Ward, Evelyn Svec, and William E. Ward. Evelyn Svec Ward: Retrospective. Westerville, Ohio: Otterbein College, 1990. p. 13, 37
  • Evelyn Svec Ward Retrospective. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1990-February 3, 1991).
  • {{cite web|title=Shard|url=false|author=Evelyn Svec Ward|year=1981|access-date=07 May 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2005.137