MODERN AMERICAN TAPESTRIES
ON VIEW AT NEW YORK ART GALLERY

Tapestry based on Recollection Pond by Romare Bearden

NEW YORK -- A show devoted to modern  tapestries by American artists opened the new exhibition space at the Jane Kahan Gallery  here Feb. 15.

Many of the works are in the collections of museums including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and  the
Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and so on.

Gloria F. Ross: Rebirth of Modern Tapestry will run through March 25, 2011 at Jane Kahan Fine Art, 330 East 59th St., New York. Hours for the show are Tuesday through Friday 10 am to 5 pm.

The show is being mounted to celebrate the publication of the book, Gloria F. Ross and Modern Tapestry, by textile scholar, Ann Lane Hedlund (Yale University Press)

Gloria F. Ross’s career stretched from the 1970s to the 1990s. during that time, she brought together the top weavers in the world with American artists to reinvent the art of tapestry in a contemporary form.

She worked with nearly 30 contemporary artists, including her sister Helen Frankenthaler, Romare Bearden, Stuart Davis, Frank Stella, Robert Motherwell and Louise Nevelson and others .

Ann Hedlund is curator of ethnology at the Arizona State Museum and professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She directs the University’s Gloria F. Ross Tapestry Program. Her book is being distributed by
Yale University Press.

The Jane Kahan Gallery is an internationally known New York City art gallery specializing in 20th century European and American masters.

Its collection of Aubusson tapestries by many of
the great artists of the 20th century is one of the largest in the world and has been featured in numerous museums, art fairs, and publications.

Report from Rockport by Stuart Davis

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