Lenore Tawney
Born 1907, Lorain, OH
Died 2007, New York
Education
1945 University of Illinois, Urbana
1947 Institute of Design, Chicago
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013 Lenore Tawney: Wholly Unlooked For, University of the Arts, Philadelphia
2012 Lenore Tawney: Wholly Unlooked For, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
2003 Lenore Tawney: Visions in Time, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, VT
2000 Lenore Tawney: Celebrating Five Decades of Work, browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT
1998 Lenore Tawney: Shrines Part II, Donahue/Sosinski Art, New York Tenri Gallery, New York
1997 Lenore Tawney: Vestures of Water, Allentown Art Museum, PA
Lenore Tawney: Meditations, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
1996 Lenore Tawney: Meditative Images, Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Lenore Tawney: roots, tendrils, threads, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Lenore Tawney, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Lenore Tawney: Shrines, E.M. Donahue Gallery, New York
1995 Lenore Tawney: Boundless World, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
1994 Tenri Gallery, New York
1992 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
1990 Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective, American Craft Museum, New York
Fairweather Hardin Gallery, Chicago
1988 Helen Drutt Gallery, New York
1986 Mokotoff Gallery, New York
1985 Mokotoff Gallery, New York
1981 Lenore Tawney: Fibers/Collages, Tacoma Art Museum, WA
Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1980 Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Fairweather Hardin Gallery, Chicago
1979 Lenore Tawney, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton
1978 Lenore Tawney: A Personal World, Brookfield Craft Center, CT
1975 Lenore Tawney, California State University, Fullerton
Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1974 Willard Gallery, New York
1970 Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ
Peale Galleries, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Willard Gallery, New York
1969 Fairweather Hardin Gallery, Chicago
Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1968 Adele Bednarz Galleries, Los Angeles
1967 Willard Gallery, New York
Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1962 Art Institute of Chicago
1961 Lenore Tawney, Staten Island Museum, New York
1960 Tapestries by Lenore Tawney, Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015 Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury and Today, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
Influence and Evolution: Fiber Sculpture…then and now, browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT
2014 Thread Lines, The Drawing Center, New York
Fiber: Sculpture 1960-Present, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
2013 Art & Textiles: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
The Art of Handwriting, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Textiles: Open Letter, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
2012 Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists, Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
To Be a Lady, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, New York
Retro/Prospective: 25+ Years of Art Textiles and Sculpture, browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT
2008 Messages and Magic: 100 Years of Collage and Assemblage in American Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2004 Traditions/Transformations: The Changing World of Fiber Art, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
2003 Abstraction: The Amerindian Paradigm, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels and Institut Valencià d’Art Modern
Generations/Transformations: American Fiber Art, American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA
1999 Material Perception – Celebrating Art and Architecture: Creating a Place for People, Bank of America Plaza, Charlotte, NC
1998 North and South Connected: An Abstraction of the Americas, Cecilia de Torres Gallery, New York
1997 Hanging by a Thread, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1996 Fiber and Form: The Womanʼs Legacy, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
1994 Inspired by Nature, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
1993 Small Works in Fiber: The Collection of Mildred Constantine, Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
1991 Intimate and Intense: Small Fiber Structures, Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
1990 Revered Earth, Premieres at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
1989 Craft Today USA, American Craft Museum, New York and Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
Fiber Concepts, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe
Frontiers in Fiber: The Americans, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks and Ishikawa Design Center, Kanazawa, Japan
1987 The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
1986 Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical, American Craft Museum, New York
Fiber R/Evolution, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
1983 11éme Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
1982 Fiber 82, Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ
1981 Lenore Tawney/Toshiko Takaezu, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
The Art Fabric Mainstream, American Federation of Arts and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Tracking the Marvelous, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University
1979 100 Artists, 100 Years: Alumni of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Centennial Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago
Form and Fiber, Works by Toshiko Takaezu and Lenore Tawney, Cleveland Institute of Art, OH
Weich und Plastich: Soft-Art, Kunsthaus, Zurich
1978 Tawney/Higa/Sawada, Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ
1977 Fiberworks, Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Lenore Tawney and a Fiber Tradition, Kansas City Art Institute, MO
1975 7éme Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
1974 Nine Artists/Coenties Slip, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
In Praise of Hands, Ontario Science Center, Toronto
Fiber Forms… past and present, Brookfield Craft Center, CT
1973 Fibre Art, Halls Exhibition Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1970 Neuerwerbungen aus den letzten Jahren, Museum Bellerive, Zurich
1969 Objects: USA, The Johnson Collection of Contemporary Crafts and National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
Wall Hangings, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964 Gewebte Formen, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zurich
Triennale di Milano, Milan
1963 Woven Forms, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York
1962 Adventures in Art, Fine Arts Pavilion, Seattle World’s Fair
1958 American Artists and Craftsmen, American Pavilion, Brussels World’s Fair
1956 Craftsmanship in a Changing World, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York
Selected Public Collections
Art Institute of Chicago
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Honolulu Museum of Art, HI
Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN
Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal
Museum Bellerive, Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich
Museum of Arts and Design, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York