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Dove

© 1974 Lenore G. Tawney Foundation

Dove
Dove
ArtistAmerican, 1907–2007
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Dove
Date1974
MediumLinen
DimensionsOverall: 118 × 108 in. (299.7 × 274.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment
Object number2022.181
Non exposé

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ProvenanceThe artist; Lenore G. Tawney Foundation, New York; [Alison Jacques Gallery, London]; purchased by MFAH, 2022.
Exhibition HistoryLenore Tawney: An Exhibition of Weaving, Collage, Assemblage, University of California, Fullerton, CA, 1975.

Lenore Tawney, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, 1979.

Form and Fiber, Works by Toshiko Takaezu and Lenore Tawney, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1979.

Lenore Tawney, Helen Drutt Gallery, New York, NY, 1988.

Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective, American Craft Museum, New York, NY 1990. Toured to Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1990; Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1991.

Lenore Tawney, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, 1992.

Lenore Tawney, Stedlijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1996.

Lenore Tawney: Celebrating Five Decades of Work, browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT,

Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, 2019.

Lenore Tawney: Part I, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, 2021.
Published References Lenore Tawney: An Exhibition of Weaving, Collage, Assemblage, University of California, Fullerton, CA, 1975: 8. Lenore Tawney: Celebrating Five Decades of Work, browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT: 33. Mangan, Kathleen Nugent. Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective. American Craft Museum, New York, NY 1990: 70. Patterson, Karen, ed. Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe. Sheboygan, WI: John Michael Kohler Arts Center in assocation with the University of Chicago Press, 2019: 177, 216. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
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