The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 24, 2025

Plexiglass mount on which thin, clear threads drape down, with thicker swaths of cream thread curling across them, wrapping around and down from our left to right at wavy diagonals.

Drawn with the Wind

1988

Sheila Hicks

(American, b. 1934)
America
Silk: buttonhole stitch; synthetic monofilament; suspended on a plexiglass mount
Overall: 21.6 x 11.4 cm (8 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.); Mounted: 25.4 x 12.7 x 13.3 cm (10 x 5 x 5 1/4 in.); Mounted, primary: 25.4 x 12.7 x 13.3 cm (10 x 5 x 5 1/4 in.)
Gift of Vicki S. McDaniel in honor of her mother, Mildred Constantine 2009.264
Location: Not on view

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 hanging fiber works.
  • The donor, Vicki S. McDaniel, is the daughter of Mildred Constantine (1913- 2008), scholar, author and collector, who donated 67 small works in fiber to the CMA which form the nucleus of the museum's fiber art collection and serve as magnets for additional gifts. They are offered from the estate.
  • Contemporary Art Rotation - Spring 2024. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 12-October 20, 2024).
    Sheila Hicks: Weaving as Metaphor. The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York (July 12-Oct 15, 2006).
  • {{cite web|title=Drawn with the Wind|url=false|author=Sheila Hicks|year=1988|access-date=24 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2009.264