Benares, India (Weavers Preparing Threads on a Loom)
c. 1970 · Photograph
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Not on view at present
Where is “Benares, India (Weavers Preparing Threads on a Loom)” now? Collection: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.
Bold diagonals are created by the stretched warps of a loom in the lower right of the composition and by a road running parallel to them above. Two men in the foreground count and separate warp threads while four other men tend the loom behind them. In the street above, a man in a white shirt and lungi walks down the street by a row of houses, leading the viewer's eye deeper into the airy composition.
