Claire Zeisler (American, 1903-1991)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Untitled Leather Construction
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Claire Zeisler (American, 1903-1991)
Chicago, Illinois, United States1974-1975
Untitled Leather Construction
Claire Zeisler (American, 1903-1991) Chicago, Illinois, United States →20th Centuryfiber artneedlework (visual works)fiber art
Date
1974-1975
Medium
Cut leather (suede), cotton, glazed ceramic, glass, coins, foil-wrapped stones, mother-of-pearl button, and clear plastic shells; appliquéd, pieced and over sewn with cotton needle lace; straight, button hole, stem and roman stitches; some printed
Dimensions
31.1 × 48.9 cm (12 1/4 × 19 1/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Nicole Williams Contemporary Textile Fund
This experimental work was created by textile designer Claire Zeisler, who studied at the Institute of Design (ID) in the 1940s with avant-garde sculptor Alexander Achipenko. Zeisler is known for her monumental, free compositions of knotted and wrapped fiber. This suede rectangle was part of a series of works that incorporated mundane found materials such as stones, coins, printed textiles, buttons, and bits of glass. This suede rectangle became the ground for a collage of natural and manmade objects, attached with colored thread, along with geometric shapes in cut suede, much like the exercises undertaken as texture studies at the ID.
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