The Art Guys
Set of six ties

Set of six ties

© The Art Guys

Set of six ties
Set of six ties
ArtistAmerican, born 1959
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Set of six ties
  • Part of the project: SUITS: The Clothes Make the Man
Date1997–1998
PlaceHouston, Texas, United States
MediumPainted fabric
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Cecily E. Horton
Object number2001.78.8
Non exposé

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ProvenanceThe artists; purchased by MFAH, 2001.
Exhibition History"Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator," Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts, September 9–November 13, 2005; Krannert Art Museum, Urbana-Champaign,Illinois, January 20–April 9, 2006; University Art Museum, University of California Santa Barbara, California, July 5–August 27, 2006; Frederick R. Weisman Museum, Minneapolis, October 14, 2006–January 7, 2007; Paul and Lulu Hilliard Museum, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisana, January–May 2007.

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