Farallon Granate (Garnet Rock Ridge)

Textiles

1973

Olga de Amaral (Colombian, born 1932)
Colombia, Bogotá

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Olga de Amaral
Title: Farallon Granate (Garnet Rock Ridge)
Place: Colombia (Object made in)
Date: Made 1973
Medium: Wool and horsehair; wrapped
Dimensions: 172.7 × 78.7 × 114 cm (68 × 31 × 45 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon B. Smith
Reference Number: 1973.682

Anna Walker and Laura Mott, Olga de Amaral: To Weave a Rock, exh. cat. (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2020) 20, 31, 56, 57 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Textile Acquisitions Since 1973, Dec. 15, 1977–Mar. 26, 1978.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Olga de Amaral: To Weave a Rock, July 25-Sept. 19, 2021, no cat. no. (ill.); Bloomfield Hills, MI, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Oct. 30, 2021-Mar. 27, 2022.

The artist; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Solomon B. Smith, Lake Forest, IL, June 1973 [correspondence between artist and Smith in curatorial artist file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1973.

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