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Textile, Painting Strokes
This is a Textile. It was designed by Sheila Hicks and manufactured by Momentum Group. It is dated 2013 and we acquired it in 2013. Its medium is 81% cotton, 19% solution-dyed nylon and its technique is jacquard woven. It is a part of the Textiles department.
In tandem with her artistic practice, Sheila Hicks has been engaged with the fields of architecture, design, and textile industry for over 50 years. Crossing Colors is Hick’s latest commercial collaboration. Working with Momentum Textiles, she has created a collection of three patterned weaves (Painting Strokes, Drawing Lines, and Crossing Colors) with coordinating solids (Weaving Palettes).
Early in her career, Hicks created commercial designs for Knoll Textiles in Pennsylvania and Commonwealth Trust in Calicut, India. Inca, a design based on her Yale master’s thesis and her study of pre-Incan textiles, remained in the Knoll catalog for 24 years; Badagara has been in continuous production at Commonwealth Trust since the mid-1960s.
Unlike her work from the 1960s, which was both hand-woven and designed at the loom, the Crossing Colors collection faithfully interprets drawings from Hicks’s Couleurs Croisées series of drawings in graphite and felt tip pen on paper or canvas. Working from the original drawings, Momentum took great care to preserve the evidence of the hand. Two of the designs have full-width horizontal repeats, an unusual feature that preserves the continuity of the line and the illusion of filling a sheet of paper.
In Painting Strokes, the weaving structure changes to replicate the deepening of color where two translucent layers overlap, and records the end of the stroke just before the selvedge edge. For Drawing Lines, a basket-weave ground was used to mimic the texture of the cotton canvas on which the original artwork was drawn, while an irregular insertion of the pattern wefts suggests the gritty texture of the graphite line work. In her artwork, Hicks often builds spaces with color and line; Crossing Colors perhaps most directly draws on this long-standing practice.
This object was
donated by
Momentum Group.
It is credited Gift of Momentum Group.
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Its dimensions are
H x W: 357.5 x 142.6 cm (11 ft. 8 3/4 in. x 56 1/8 in.) Repeat H x W: 95.3 x 137.2 cm (37 1/2 in. x 54 in.)
Cite this object as
Textile, Painting Strokes; Designed by Sheila Hicks (American, b. 1934); Manufactured by Momentum Group; USA; 81% cotton, 19% solution-dyed nylon; H x W: 357.5 x 142.6 cm (11 ft. 8 3/4 in. x 56 1/8 in.) Repeat H x W: 95.3 x 137.2 cm (37 1/2 in. x 54 in.); Gift of Momentum Group; 2013-36-1
