textiles

Monday's image: May 13, 2024

Gitte Dæhlin, She Who Carries the Memory of this Earth, Where Does this Earth Carry Her?, Leather, textile, horsehair, metal, burlap and canvas, 260 x 175 x 52 centimeters, 1980-1983, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, Norway

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Monday's image: April 15, 2024

Faith Ringgold, Early Works #25: Self-Portrait, Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 inches, 1965, Brooklyn Museum, New York

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Monday's image: January 22, 2024

Unidentified artist, Costume, Printed cotton and metal, Circa 1889, The Museum at FIT, New York

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Monday's image: November 13, 2023

Dan Halter, Rifugiato Mappa del Mondo (Refugee Map of the World), Stitched-together new and used plastic-weave shopping bags, edition: 7 (unique) from a series of 8, 72 x 150 inches, 2016, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

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Monday's image: April 24, 2023

Alice Maher, Nettle Coat, Nettles, pins, hanger, 70 x 60 x 5 centimeters, 1996, The Arts Council, Dublin, Ireland

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Monday's image: December 12, 2022

Jerzy Bereś, Protest, Wood, textiles, mixed media, 2030 millimeters, 1976, Museum Kampa, Prague, Czech Republic

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Monday's image: September 26, 2022

Hannah Ryggen, Spania, Wool and linen tapestry, 193.5 x 219.5 centimeters, 1938, Stiftelsen Kunstindustrimuseet, The Design Collections, Oslo, Norway

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Monday's image: June 27, 2022

Áine Phillips, Bannerettes, R-E-P-E-A-L, Artists’ Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment, Embroidered satin, dress and curtain lining, polyester, cotton, gold lamé, linen and rayon, 44 x 31 centimeters, 2017, Installation view, At the Gates, 2018, Talbot Rice Gallery, The University of Edinburgh.

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Monday's image: October 4, 2021

Michel Nedjar, Untitled, Acrylic, oil pastel, and wax on brown paper bag, 12 x 8 inches, 1988, American Folk Art Museum, New York

Monday's image: June 28, 2021

Jae Jarrell, Urban Wall Suit, Sewn and painted cotton and silk, two-piece suit, 95.3 x 69.9 x1.3 centimeters, 1969, Brooklyn Museum, New York

Monday's image: December 21, 2020

Hélio Oiticica, P16 Parangolé Cape 12 “From Adversity We Live”, Jute, fabric, wood shavings, and plastics, 114 x 27 x 22 centimeters, 1965 (reconstructed 1992), Museum of Modern Art, New York

Monday's image: January 20, 2020

Marie Watt, Companion Species (Speech Bubble), Reclaimed wool blankets, embroidery floss, and thread, 347 x 504.2 centimeters, 2019, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Benton, Arkansas

Monday's image: January 13, 2020

Jamal Cyrus, Untitled (Threads), Wax, ink on canvas, 31.25 x 24.25 inches, 2016, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Sarasota Springs, New York

Monday's image: December 9, 2019

Jolanta Rudzka-Habisiak, Untitled Book, Folded paper, some ink printed, mounted on board, re-plied cotton cord, 1999, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

Monday's image: October 21, 2019

Leonilson (José Leonilson Bezerra Dias), The Penelope, Fabric, 2220 x 830 millimeters, 1993, Tate, U.K.

Monday's image: January 14, 2019

Raquel Ormella, This dream, Nylon, 150 x 210 centimeters overall, 2013, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Monday's image: December 17, 2018

Lenore Tawney, Shield II, Natural linen, Chinese golden pheasant feathers, porcupine quills; woven, 61 x 45.7 x 1.3 centimeters, 1963, Museum of Arts and Design, New York

Monday's image: December 3, 2018

Micheline Beauchemin, Nordic Blue Ice Flow: Homage to the St. Lawrence River, Cotton threads covered with mylar, colored silk threads and linen threads, 162 x 504.5 centimeters, 1984, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Monday's image: April 2, 2018

Sheila Hicks, Blue Letter, Hand-woven wool, 17.75 x 17 inches, 1959, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Monday's image: March 12, 2018

Ejagham peoples, Headdress:Head, Nigeria, Cross River region, Wood, skin, pigment, iron nails, 41.3 x 12.4 x 18.4 centimeters, 19th-20th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York