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Eskimo (verso), Lenore Tawney, 1981
Lenore Tawney, portraitLenore TawneyAmerican, 1907–2007

Eskimo (verso)

1981 · Drawing

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The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

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In this state since
Aug 19, 2026
Source
The museum
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About the work

This is one of 44 postcard collages in the CMA’s collection that the textile artist Lenore Tawney sent through the mail to her friend, the art dealer, curator, and critic Katherine Kuh between 1969 and 1981. Using natural objects and ephemera that she compiled over a lifetime, Tawney’s collages display the artist’s personal visual vocabulary and poetic response to materials. Recurring images—such as eggs, feathers, birds, baby animals, crosses, and circles—engage with universal themes such as vulnerability, resilience, infinity, and spirituality.

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Particulars

1981 · aged 74
19072007
Accession number
1981.202.1.b

In the catalog

Drawings & watercolorsPen and inkContemporary art20th centuryAmerica

Sources

  • The Cleveland Museum of Art
  • Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art — © Lenore G. Tawney Foundation

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Red Circle, Lenore Tawney, 1964

Red Circle

1964 · Art Institute of Chicago

2 am 2-7-67, Lenore Tawney, 1967

2 am 2-7-67

1967 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Seed Circle, Lenore Tawney, (1967)

Seed Circle

(1967) · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Gnamon 2.10.72, Lenore Tawney, 1972

Gnamon 2.10.72

1972 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Egg and Brancusi, Lenore Tawney, late 1970s

Egg and Brancusi

late 1970s · Not on view · The Cleveland Museum of Art

Egg and Brancusi (verso), Lenore Tawney, late 1970s

Egg and Brancusi (verso)

late 1970s · Not on view · The Cleveland Museum of Art

Egg and Brancusi (recto), Lenore Tawney, late 1970s

Egg and Brancusi (recto)

late 1970s · Not on view · The Cleveland Museum of Art

Untitled, Lenore Tawney, 1947-48

Untitled

1947-48 · Not on view · Art Institute of Chicago

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Melencolia I, 1514

The Virgin and Child with the Pear, Albrecht Dürer, 1511

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The Nativity, probably c. 1509/1510

The Virgin and Child on a Crescent with a Starry Crown, Albrecht Dürer, 1508

Albrecht Dürer

The Virgin and Child on a Crescent with a Starry Crown, 1508

The Lamentation, Albrecht Dürer, 1507

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Large Horse, Albrecht Dürer, 1505

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Nemesis (The Great Fortune), Albrecht Dürer, c. 1501/1502

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