Lenore Tawney | People | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Lenore Tawney was born in Lorraine, Ohio, and spent her young adult life in Chicago, where she worked as a proofreader for a legal publishing company. She began taking classes at the Art Institute as well as Chicago’s Institute of Design (formerly the New Bauhaus), studying sculpture under Alexander Archipenko and weaving with Marli Ehrman. In 1957, at the age of fifty, she moved to New York City to redefine herself as an artist. She established her studio (the first of nine in the city) at Coenties Slip on the Lower East Side, where she joined an artistic community that included Jack Youngerman, Robert Indiana, James Rosenquist, and, most significantly, Agnes Martin, with whom she developed a close... more.

We have 14 objects that Lenore Tawney has been involved with.

Photograph, Works by Lenore Tawney displayed in the Cooper Union Museum exhibition, The Wonders of Thread

Rectangular, sandy-brown hanging textile with white and brown feathers woven into the center. There is fringe at the ends and horizontal bars at the top and bottom woven into the piece adding texture, most of the piece being a densely woven, even surface. In contrast, the central area of the piece has wider weavings columns on the left and right that create rows stacked on top of each other. There is a column of thick weave rows near the bottom as well, and along each, the feathers just meet the edge of each. The feathers and thick rows are arranged like a square without a top line.

Lenore Tawney has collaborated with
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