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Explore image in 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.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
