id: 163291 accession number: 2004.145 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2004.145 updated: 2022-01-04 17:34:17.560000 Peppi's Flowers, 1988. Joanne Segal Brandford (American, 1933-1994). Knotless net; silk, pigment; overall: 144.8 x 43.2 cm (57 x 17 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Marina Whitman 2004.145 title: Peppi's Flowers title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1988 creation date earliest: 1988 creation date latest: 1988 current location: creditline: Gift of Marina Whitman copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: Knotless net; silk, pigment department: Textiles collection: T - Contemporary Fiber Art type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Joanne Segal Brandford (American, 1933-1994) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 144.8 x 43.2 cm (57 x 17 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Paper tags inscribed in pencil and attached with string: Upper right front: Peppi's Flowers top right nylon filament (identifies diagram of filament attached to upper L. & R. corners) Joanne Segal Brandford Upper right back: hook this loop over hook - to avoid - "shower curtain effect" Peppi's flowers UR corner Upper left front: Peppi's Flowers Hook this loop over hook - to avoid the "shower curtain effect" UL corner Upper left back: Top left [diagram of nylon filament] Small paper tag inscribed in pencil and attached with maroon thread to bottom edge: Front: Brandford "Peppi's Flowers" Back: (J140) 1988 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Listed in exhibition but not illustrated: Nancy Neumann Press and Joanne Segal Brandford, Knots and Nets, Cornell University, 1988, No. 50, Collection of the artist. For related illustrated works by the artist, see Figures 47 (color, billowing in windy orchard), 48, 49. --- PROVENANCE Purchased in about 1995 from an art gallery that has gone out of business. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Called Peppi as a child, Joanne Segal Brandford created this ethereal work, influenced by such historic textiles as knotless netted bags of South America and European needle laces. In her words, "as I became aware of the variety and strength of traditional netting throughout the world, I felt encouraged to continue and expand my own explorations. . . . Recently I have explored ideas of openess/closedness and of spatial ambiguity. Illusion, especially the question of shadow and substance (real/not real), has been of particular interest." Having taken Dr. Sherman Lee’s first year-long course of Far Eastern art, the donor of Peppi’s Flowers admires this museum, where Peruvian textiles can be displayed along with contemporary fiber art. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Hunter, Catherine K. “Who Were Joanne Segal Brandford and Lillian Elliott? The Brandford/Elliott Award.” Published in Textile Society of America 2014 Biennial Symposium Proceedings: New Directions: Examining the Past, Creating the Future, Los Angeles, California, September 10–14, 2014, Accessed 10/22/2021 from http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cbmevancott/1/ page number: url: --- IMAGES