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Lenore Tawney

Lenore Tawney (1907 - 2007) was active/lived in New York, Illinois, Ohio / India.  Lenore Tawney is known for Assemblage, fiber art, collage, woven sculpture.

Fiber artist Lenore Tawney, born in Lorain, Ohio, became an influential figure in the development of woven sculpture as an art medium.  Her introduction to the tenets of the German Bauhaus* school and the artistic avant-garde came in 1946 with her attendance at Lazlo Moholy-Nagy's Chicago Institute of Design, and study with Moholy-Nagy, cubist sculptor Alexander Archipenko and abstract-expressionist painter Emerson Woelffer.  In 1949, she studied weaving with Marli Ehrmann.

Destroying her clay sculpture, she moved tentatively to fiber, receiving a huge career "break" when the first pieces she made, black and white table mats, were selected by the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City, for a "Good Design" exhibition.

Tawney lived in North Africa, Spain and France for a year and a half, before returning to America in 1954 to study tapestry weaving at the Penland School of Crafts, in North Carolina, with Martta Taipale, a Finnish weaver.  But, like Archipen   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7731 characters.]  Artist bio

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