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"tombstone": "Indian Art from Mesa Verde, 1980. Lenore Tawney (American, 1907\u20132007). Pen and black ink and watercolor and collage; image: 8.8 x 14 cm (3 7/16 x 5 1/2 in.); sheet: 8.8 x 14 cm (3 7/16 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katharine Kuh, 1981.168. \u00a9 Lenore G. Tawney Foundation",
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"title": "Indian Art from Mesa Verde",
"creation_date": "1980",
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"department": "Drawings",
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"type": "Drawing",
"measurements": "Image: 8.8 x 14 cm (3 7/16 x 5 1/2 in.); Sheet: 8.8 x 14 cm (3 7/16 x 5 1/2 in.)",
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"copyright": "\u00a9 Lenore G. Tawney Foundation",
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"inscription": "Signed and dated: \"Lenore Tawney 1980\"",
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"id": 304599,
"title": "The Year in Review for 1981",
"description": "The Year in Review for 1981. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).",
"opening_date": "1982-02-17T05:00:00"
},
{
"id": 383281,
"title": "Stories from Storage",
"description": "Stories from Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).",
"opening_date": "2021-02-06T05:00:00"
}
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"description": "Lenore Tawney (the artist) [1907-1997]",
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"date": "1980",
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"description": "Katharine Kuh [1904-1994]",
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"date": "1980-82",
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"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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"date": "March 8, 1982",
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"did_you_know": "Lenore Tawney was a pioneering fiber artist known for large-scale public installations, but her postcard collages were personal missives to close friends on an intimate scale.",
"description": "This is one of 44 postcard collages in the CMA\u2019s collection that the textile artist Lenore Tawney sent through the mail to her friend, the art dealer, curator, and critic Katherine Kuh between 1969 and 1981. Using natural objects and ephemera that she compiled over a lifetime, Tawney\u2019s collages display the artist\u2019s personal visual vocabulary and poetic response to materials. Recurring images\u2014such as eggs, feathers, birds, baby animals, crosses, and circles\u2014engage with universal themes such as vulnerability, resilience, infinity, and spirituality.",
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"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79932709"
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \"The Year in Review for 1981.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 69, no. 2 (1982)",
"page_number": "p. 82, no. 116",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159758"
}
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"creditline": "Gift of Katharine Kuh",
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"description": "Lenore Tawney (American, 1907\u20132007)",
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"biography": "Tawney was born Leonora Agnes Gallagher in Lorain, Ohio, in 1907. She studied drawing, sculpture, and weaving with well-known artists at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana (1943-45), the Institute of Design in Chicago (1946-48), and at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina where she became a weaver (1954). Throughout her prolific career, Tawney has had numerous one-person exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions, including the renowned landmark international Fiberworks at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1977. Her work is represented in many major museums, including four pieces in the Cleveland Museum of Art, and she has received numerous awards, including the American Craft Council's Gold Medal in 1987. Tawney's \"flag\" is one of the highlights of the museum's contemporary fiber art collection, which includes about 100 works.",
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"updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:02:34.928000"
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