Northwesterly

Textiles

1957

Anni Albers (American, born Germany, 1899–1994)
United States, Connecticut, New Haven

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Anni Albers
Title: Northwesterly
Place: Connecticut (Object made in)
Date: Made 1957
Medium: Cotton, rayon, and acrylic, bands of four-color complementary warp plain weave, weft-faced plain weave, weft-faced plain weave of discontinuous wefts, plain weave of discontinuous wefts, and gauze weave; main warp fringe
Dimensions: 38.8 × 59 cm (15 1/4 × 23 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Maurice D. Galleher Endowment
Reference Number: 1970.346
Copyright: © 2018 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Focus on Fiber Art: Selections from the Growing 20th Century Collection, Oct. 6, 1993–Feb. 27, 1994.
Düsseldorf, Germany, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen am Grabbeplatz, Anni Albers, June 7-September 2, 2018; London, England, Tate Modern, Anni Albers, October 11, 2018-January 27, 2019.

The artist; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1970.

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