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Wall Hanging: 42 Circles

Liz Whitney Quisgard

Wall Hanging: 42 Circles

2004

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Liz Whitney Quisgard

Wall Hanging: 42 Circles

2004

Physical Qualities Cotton (buckram) ground, synthetic yarn including synthetic metalilc yarn, 141 1/2 x 30 in. (359.4 x 76.2 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of the Artist, New York
Object Number 2014.20
Long narrow needlepoint hanging featuring 42 circle designs of multiple varied colors created by stitching colored synthetic yarns through a stiff cotton buckram backing. The circles are arranged three across the width (with some overlapping) and 14 down the length of the hanging. A sense of three dimensionality is achieved with shading of the designs, thus dividing each circle into four quadrants and also creating large overlapping triangular areas of darker colors throughout. The hanging has straight borders on all sides formed of multiple colors of yarn stitched in straight lines. The edges are finished with stitches around the cut buckram backing.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2014; the artist, NY
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "New Arrivals: Gifts of Art for a New Century," February 7 - May 8, 2016.
BMA TODAY, Winter-Spring 2016, "New Arrivals" Gifts of Art for a New Century, pp. 4-7, p. 5 #3, illus; also illus. detail p. 3.
Invitation for Council Private Preview, Baltimore Museum of Art, "New Arrivals: Gifts of Art for a New Century," Feburary 6, 2016, inside cover, illus, color detail, back cover information.
Digital display, The Baltimore Museum of Art, East Lobby, February 7 - May 8, 2016.

Inscribed: Hand printed with black ink marker on white twill woven cotton label attached to reverse: "Liz Whitney Quisgard/42 Circles 18' x 28'/yarn on buckram/2005"

Artist

Liz Whitney Quisgard

1929-01-01 00:00:00

American, born 1929
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