First Teachers Balance the Universe, Part II: Things That Fly (Prey) Artist: Marie Watt (American and Seneca, born 1967, M.F.A. 1996)

2015

Modern and Contemporary Art

On view, 3rd floor, Modern and Contemporary Art and Design
Medium

Reclaimed wool blankets, embroidery floss, and thread

Dimensions

73 1/2 × 157 in. (186.7 × 398.8 cm)

Credit Line

Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund

Accession Number

2018.181.2

Culture

Seneca

Period

21st century

Classification

Textiles

Disclaimer

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Provenance
The piece comes to PDX CONTEMPORARY ART directly from Marie Watt.
Bibliography
  • Lisa Hodermarsky et al., On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2021), 14, 246–47, no. 53, fig. 1
  • Katherine Nova McCleary, Leah Tamar Shrestinian, and Joseph Zordan, Place, Nations, Generations, Beings: 200 Years of Indigenous North American Art, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2019), 63, no. 8, ill
Object copyright
© Marie Watt
In Copyright
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Subject

Arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas Women artists

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