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