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Claire Zeisler1973/1976
- Attribution
- Claire Zeisler (American, 1903–1991) Chicago, United States
- Medium
- Cut suede, cotton, glazed ceramic, glass, coins, foil-wrapped stones, mother-of-pearl button, and clear plastic shells; appliquéd, pieced and over sewn with cotton in needle lace; straight, button hole, stem and roman stitches; some printed
- Physical dimensions
- 31.1 × 48.9 cm (12 1/4 × 19 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Nicole Williams Contemporary Textile Fund
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This experimental work was created by textile designer Claire Zeisler, who studied at the Institute of Design (ID) in the 1940s with avant-garde sculptor Alexander Achipenko . Zeisler is known for her monumental, free compositions of knotted and wrapped fiber. This suede rectangle was part of a series of works that incorporated mundane found materials such as stones, coins, printed textiles, buttons, and bits of glass. This suede rectangle became the ground for a collage of natural and manmade objects, attached with colored thread, along with geometric shapes in cut suede, much like the exercises undertaken as texture studies at the ID.
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