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This is one of 44 postcard collages in the CMA’s collection that the textile artist Lenore Tawney sent through the mail to her friend, the art dealer, curator, and critic Katherine Kuh between 1969 and 1981. Using natural objects and ephemera that she compiled over a lifetime, Tawney’s collages display the artist’s personal visual vocabulary and poetic response to materials. Recurring images—such as eggs, feathers, birds, baby animals, crosses, and circles—engage with universal themes such as vulnerability, resilience, infinity, and spirituality.
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150382
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Andre
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drawing
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150382
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drawing
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Andre
description
This is one of 44 postcard collages in the CMA’s collection that the textile artist Lenore Tawney sent through the mail to her friend, the art dealer, curator, and critic Katherine Kuh between 1969 and 1981. Using natural objects and ephemera that she compiled over a lifetime, Tawney’s collages display the artist’s personal visual vocabulary and poetic response to materials. Recurring images—such as eggs, feathers, birds, baby animals, crosses, and circles—engage with universal themes such as vulnerability, resilience, infinity, and spirituality.
date
1977
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Copyrighted
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Copyrighted
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en
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Q79932733
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32648
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Drawing
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0
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Image: 9.8 x 15 cm (3 7/8 x 5 7/8 in.); Sheet: 9.8 x 15 cm (3 7/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
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America
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1981.175
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pen and black ink and collage
tombstone
Andre, 1977. Lenore Tawney (American, 1907–2007). Pen and black ink and collage; image: 9.8 x 15 cm (3 7/8 x 5 7/8 in.); sheet: 9.8 x 15 cm (3 7/8 x 5 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katharine Kuh, 1981.175. © Lenore G. Tawney Foundation
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postcard
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DR - American 20th Century
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Signed and dated: "1977"
didYouKnow
Lenore Tawney was a pioneering fiber artist known for large-scale public installations, but her postcard collages were personal missives to close friends on an intimate scale.
citations
citation
Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1981." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 69, no. 2 (1982).
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p. 82, no. 116
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Gift of Katharine Kuh
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2026-05-01 06:51:04.314000
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150382
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Drawings
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DR - American 20th Century
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pen and black ink and collage
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