Artist
Lenore Tawney (American, 1907–2007)American, 1907–2007
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Distilla
Date1967
MediumPaper and watercolor
DimensionsSheet: 10 1/4 × 8 1/4 in. (26 × 21 cm)
Frame (outer): 12 3/16 × 9 1/16 × 1 7/8 in. (31 × 23 × 4.8 cm)
Frame (outer): 12 3/16 × 9 1/16 × 1 7/8 in. (31 × 23 × 4.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Lenore G. Tawney Foundation
Object number2022.123
Non exposé
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Department
Decorative Arts, Craft, and DesignObject Type
Exhibition HistoryLenore 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: Meditative Images, Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI, 1996.
Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, 2019.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Inscribed in ink at bottom left: Distilla
Recto: Signed and dated in ink at bottom right corner: 16 May / 1967 / L T
Recto: Signed and dated in ink at bottom right corner: 16 May / 1967 / L T
Recto: Signed and dated in ink at bottom right corner: 16 May / 1967 / L T
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