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The Women of Coenties Slip: Art, Connection, and Place May 9 | 3:30pm | 213 Water Street | Free

The Women of Coenties Slip: Art, Connection, and Place — Screening & Discussion at South Street Seaport Museum

On Saturday, May 9 at 3:30 p.m., the South Street Seaport Museum presents the premiere of three short documentaries by OnThisSpot NYC celebrating the women artists of Coenties Slip: Agnes Martin, Lenore Tawney, and Chryssa. The event is free and open to the public; registration is suggested. The Women of Coenties Slip: Art, Connection, and […]
Lenore Tawney. Dark River. 1962. Linen and wood, 164 × 22 1/2" (416.6 × 57.2 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Greta Daniel Design Fund. © 2025 Lenore Tawney

Lenore Tawney’s Dark River, on view for the first time at MoMA.

The artist’s former sail-making loft on the East River in downtown Manhattan inspired this magisterial work. Part of a collection exhibition called The Artist of Coenties Slip, currently on view at MoMA, it looks at a brief period when a group of artists lived and worked on Coenties Slip, far downtown by the waterfront in […]

Lenore Tawney & Toshiko Takaezu: A Remarkable Friendship presented by Alison Jacques Gallery, London, November 15 – January 11, 2025

Alison Jacques presents ‘Lenore Tawney & Toshiko Takaezu: A Remarkable Friendship’, a two-person exhibition dedicated to the work and lifelong friendship of Lenore Tawney (b.1907, Ohio; d.2007, New York) and Toshiko Takaezu (b.1922, Hawaii; d.2011, Hawaii). This is the first exhibition of Toshiko Takaezu’s work in the UK; Tawney has been represented and exhibited by Alison Jacques in London since 2017. Through showing the work of both artists together, in testament to their 50 year enduring friendship, this exhibition emphasizes how both artists, as pioneers and innovators, made their work in an ongoing spiritual quest to express an intangible truth.
Time Trembling, 1969

Lenore Tawney: Time Trembling presented by Alison Jacques Gallery at the Independent 20th Century, New York, September 6-8, 2024

At this year’s Independent 20th Century, Alison Jacques presents Time Trembling, a solo exhibition of work spanning 1958-1970 by renowned American artist Lenore Tawney (1907-2007).
Postcard from Lenore Tawney to Katherine Kuh

Correspondence Art: Postcards by Lenore Tawney at The Art Institute of Chicago

Tawney began creating postcard collages in the ’60s while she was moving between studios and traveling internationally. Though she left Chicago, the artist maintained a longstanding friendship with Katherine Kuh, who was the first woman curator of European art and sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago. The two exchanged mail art over the course […]
Toshiko Takaezu with moons, 1979. Photo Hiro

Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within, presented by the Noguchi Museum

On display from March 20 – July 28, 2024, this exhibition will feature approximately 200 objects from public and private collections across the country, including a major weaving by Lenore Tawney, referencing Takaezu and Tawney’s important joint exhibitions and their many decades of friendship.
Close up of knit weaving

Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art, presented by the Met Fifth Ave

On display from March 5–June 16, 2024 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, explores the striking connections between artists of the ancient Andes and those of the 20th century. 
Woven History Exhibition photo of a woven artwork on left and a hand felted dress on the right

Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, presented by Los Angeles County Museum of Art

On display from Sep 17th, 2023 – Jan 21st, 2024 at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. An exhibition exploring the intersection of abstract art and woven textiles over the past century.
woven tapestry of a naked woman jumping with her hair flying in the wind, silhouetted against a background of colorful with red and yellow boxes of color

Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women exhibition, organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum

May 31, 2024 – January 5, 2025 at the Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC. The thirty-four selected artworks piece together an alternative history of American art.