Box+of+Falling+Stars

Date: 1984
 * [[image:http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=http://americanart.si.edu/images/1992/1992.83_1a.jpg&max=460 width="264" height="336" link="@http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=33383"]] || Title: **Box of Falling Stars**

Artist: **Lenore Tawney** Born: Lorain, Ohio 1907 Died: New York, New York 2007

Medium: cotton canvas, linen thread, acrylic paint, and ink Dimensions: Approx. 108 × 68 × 70 in. (274.3 × 172.7 × 177.8 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase through the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program © 1984, Lenore G. Tawney

Accession: 1992.83 ||

“Lenore Tawney (1907-2007) was a pioneering American artist. She created a body of innovative woven work that helped to shape the course of fiber art during the second half of the twentieth century. Tawney is equally known for the highly personal collages, sculptural assemblages, drawings and postcards that she began during the 1960s and continued to create throughout her long life.” – Lenore G. Tawney Foundation
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Lenore Tawney shifted from sculpture to fiber art in 1954. Later in the 1960s, she joined the New York avant-garde of the abstract expressionists. She created abstract woven forms, which Tawney generally decorated with patterns, yarn of varying textures, and weights as well as non-fiber objects like shells, beads, and feathers. For the artist her fiber works communicated a sense of spirituality, a quality informed by Eastern and Western mystical religious philosophies. After 1976 Tawney largely turned her focus to collages and assemblages comprised of found objects.

Artist Biography SAAM Collections Page Lenore G. Tawney Foundation
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