Artworks

Lissy Funk

Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk, hemp, cotton, horsehair, and silver beads in detached buttonhole, detached trammed buttonhole, and bullion knot stitches; a variety of laidwork and couching, buttonhole and overcast bars; coiling in lazy squaw stitch; appliquéd with linen, plain weave; embroidered in overcast stitches; beaded · 1987

Olga de Amaral

Wool and horsehair · 1987

Lissy Funk

Linen, plain weave; embroidered with linen, wool, silk, horsehair, hemp, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in open buttonhole filling and stem stitches; laid work and couching · 1986

Ásgerður Ester Búadóttir

Linen, wool, and horsehair, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave with eccentric wefts and supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile; backing bands of jute, plain weave · 1981

Olga de Amaral

Wool and horsehair; wrapped · 1973

Magdalena Abakanowicz

Sisal, hemp, and horsehair, slit tapestry weave with raised coils of supplementary wefts; attached strips of weft-faced plain weave and lengths of horsehair · 1970

Richard Artschwager

Multiple of rubberized horsehair and formica · 1969

Magdalena Abakanowicz

Sisal, rope and horsehair · 1966

Lenore Tawney

Linen, warp-faced weft-ribbed plain weave; embellished with knotted grass fringe, stone and shell beads, and metal foil rectangles secured by knotted lengths of linen threads; suspended from knotted main warp; bottom edged with main warp cut fringe knotted with horsehair · 1957

Anni Albers

Horsehair, jute, cellophane, and cotton · 1949

Anni Albers

Cotton, cellophane, and braided horsehair · 1949

Anni Albers

Horsehair and chenille · 1933

Anni Albers

Horsehair and gimp · 1933

Anni Albers

Horsehair and gimp · 1933

Anni Albers

Horsehair and chenille · 1933

Anni Albers

Horsehair and gimpe · 1933

Anni Albers

Horsehair, chenille, and gimpe · 1933

Marion Dorn

Wool, jute, and horsehair, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut solid pile through a technique known as "Ghiordes knots" · 1930

Pierre Jeanneret

Chrome-plated tubular steel, horsehair, down, and leather · 1928

Josef Albers

Wood, possibly elm; walnut and maple veneers; modern horsehair upholstery · 1926

Josef Albers

Wood, possibly elm; walnut and maple veneers; modern horsehair upholstery · 1926

Josef Albers

Wood, possibly elm; walnut and maple veneers; ebonized fruitwood; modern horsehair upholstery · 1926

Gunta Stölzl

Cotton, wool, and horsehair · 1923

George Grant Elmslie

Oak, laminated wood, leather, jute webbing, and horsehair · 1910