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Art of the Ancient Americas
Maker: Unknown
Serape
Woven cotton, silk, and wool
205.7 × 127 cm (81 × 50 in.)
The Harriet Engelhardt Memorial Collection of Textiles, from the estate of Black Mountain College through a gift of Mrs. Paul Moore
1958.13.22
Geography:
Mexico
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Mexico, Querétaro
Period:
19th–20th century
Classification:
Textiles
Provenance:
Harriet Engelhardt Memorial Collection. Mrs. Paul Moore, to 1958; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography:
Loretta N Staples, A Sense of Pattern: Textile Masterworks from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1981), 57, no. 53, ill.
Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 323, ill.
Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye and Michael D. Coe, Small-Great Objects: Anni and Josef Albers in the Americas, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2017), 26, fig. 2.
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