Collections & Commissions

Selected Public Collections

  • Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  • Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
  • Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York, NY
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
  • Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
  • Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • Museum Bellerive, Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
  • Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
  • Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Public Commissions

1960 Nativity in Nature, Interchurch Center, New York, NY

1960.Tawney,NativityInNature
Lenore Tawney, Nativity in Nature, 1960, 126” x 50”. The Interchurch Center, New York, NY
1963 Ark veil, Congregation Solel, Highland Park, IL
1978 Cloud Series IV, Santa Rosa Federal Building, Santa Rosa, CA
1981 Cloud Series VI, Frank J. Lausche State Office Building, Cleveland, OH

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Lenore Tawney installing Cloud Series VI, 1981, 16’x32’x8′. Frank J. Lausche State Office Building, Cleveland, OH
1983 Cloud Series VII, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT