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Modern and Contemporary Art
Artist: Marie Watt, Seneca, born 1967, M.F.A. 1996
First Teachers Balance the Universe, Part II: Things That Fly (Prey)
2015
Reclaimed wool blankets, embroidery floss, and thread
74 × 136 in. (188 × 345.4 cm)
Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund
2018.181.2
Status:
On view
Culture:
Seneca
Period:
21st century
Classification:
Textiles
Provenance:
The piece comes to PDX CONTEMPORARY ART directly from Marie Watt.
Bibliography:
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.
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.
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