Tawney’s Triune is September’s “eye-con” for the Met Museum’s Department of Textile Conservation

Lenore Tawney's Triune is a featured object on the Metropolitan Museum of Art Department of Textile Conservation's Instagram

Lenore Tawney’s Triune, a large tapestry woven in 1961, is a featured object on the Metropolitan Museum of Art Department of Textile Conservation

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Triune is also their eye-con (or profile photo) for the month of September.
This beautiful piece was one of forty weavings exhibited in Tawney’s first solo show at the Staten Island Museum in 1961. “There is an urgency that sweeps us up,” wrote painter, Agnes Martin, on that exhibition, “an originality and success that holds us in wonder.”

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

Description 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 […]

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

Description 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). Tawney is best known for her woven sculptural forms, however, this presentation will also showcase other consistent series of work Tawney made throughout her 50-year career, including drawings, collages […]

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: 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.

Tawney's Triune is September's "eye-con" for the Met Museum's Department of Textile Conservation - Lenore G. Tawney Foundation :: Lenore G. Tawney Foundation

Tawney’s Triune is September’s “eye-con” for the Met Museum’s Department of Textile Conservation

Tawney’s Triune is September’s “eye-con” for the Met Museum’s Department of Textile Conservation

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

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

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

Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within, presented by the Noguchi Museum