A cylindrical basket with a domed bottom, woven from narrow strips of grey-brown wood. It is sitting upside down, with the open side at the bottom, and the domed bottom at the top. The following descriptions of pattern refer to the basket's position in the image. The top quarter of the basket has wide strips, about twice the width of the rest of the strips. The upper three-quarters are woven in an open, diamond-shaped pattern. The bottom quarter is tightly woven at right angles, with the pattern rotated to the diagonal at the lip. Because of the basket's open weave, the front and back seem to blend together, complicating the pattern.

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Object Timeline

1982	We acquired this object. Work on this object began.
2015	We photographed this object.
2024	You found it!

Basket (USA), 1982

This is a basket. It was made by John McQueen (American, b. 1943). It is dated 1982 and we acquired it in 1982. Its medium is basswood. It is a part of the Textiles department.

John McQueen made this basket for a 1982 Cooper Hewitt exhibition on lace. The body of the basket employs a simple plaiting technique commonly used in bobbin lace: the whole or torchon ground stitch. The intention was to show how simple techniques of plaiting and interlacing are capable of creating objects that are lightweight yet strong, much like the geodesic dome.

Its dimensions are

H x diam.: 26.7 × 19.1 cm (10 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)

Cite this object as

Basket (USA), 1982; Made by John McQueen (American, b. 1943); basswood; H x diam.: 26.7 × 19.1 cm (10 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.); 1982-24-1

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2EmtF/
Accession Number 1982-24-1
Object ID 18799637