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Françoise Grossen

Maquette for San Mateo Fiber Sculpture

1979

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Françoise Grossen

Maquette for San Mateo Fiber Sculpture

1979

Physical Qualities Cotton and linen cording, painted foamcore, wood, paper, ink, 12 1/2 x 23 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. (31.8 x 59.7 x 59.7 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of the Artist in Honor of Warren Seelig
Object Number 2013.369
Scale model for a sculpture created for commercial site in San Mateo, California. The model consists of seven small scale platforms and pedestals (painted white) of various size, height, and shape on which rest seven sculptural textile forms created from braided white cotton cord and greyish linen. All seven textile sculptures are of different designs, which are abstract images somewhat evocative of forms found in nature. The platforms and pedestals are arranged in the same configuration as the large work for which this piece served asa model. All are encased in a box consisting of a wood bottom with a five-sided Plexiglas bonnet. A small paper label is at one corner. The model is to the scale of 2 inches equals 1 foot.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2013; the artist, NY
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "New Arrivals: Gifts of Art for a New Century," February 7 - May 8, 2016.

Inscribed: Printed by hand on paper label at corner of base of case: “Sculpture Model 2”= 1’ 0” March 1980 Françoise Grossen”

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Françoise Grossen

Swiss, born 1943, active in United States 1968-present
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