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Whole and Half Moons
Ethel Stein2007
- Attribution
- Ethel Stein (American, 1917-2018) United States
- Medium
- Two panels: cotton, satin weave damask; woven on a loom with a drawloom attachment fabricated by the artist
- Physical dimensions
- 87.7 × 86.3 cm (34 1/2 × 34 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Ethel Stein
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According to Lucy Commoner, author of an insightful essay about Stein, the artist’s “pieces woven with only black-and-white warps and wefts achieve a wide range of gray-scale values through the manipulation of the weave structures.” This is indeed the achievement represented by powerful works such as Whole and Half Moons .
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