Room Divider
Ted Hallman
Decorative Arts and Design
Ted Hallman has been at the vanguard of modern textile design since the late 1950s, when he began to combine natural fibers with acrylic, a relatively new material at the time that had been developed for military use during World War II. The juxtaposition of natural fibrers with the luminous new synthetic material was wholly original at the time. A nearly identical hanging by Hallman was included in the seminal 1969 exhibition Objects USA, which introduced Americans to variety of new designs of the emerging craft movement and helped to bridge the perceived aesthetic gap between so-called craft and fine arts.
MEDIUM
Acrylic, natural fibers, wood, metal
DATES
ca. 1964
DIMENSIONS
88 x 48 in. (223.5 x 121.9 cm)
COLLECTIONS
Decorative Arts and Design
ACCESSION NUMBER
2004.59
CREDIT LINE
Gift of the executors of the Estate of Clara M. Blum in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Blum, by exchange
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Hand woven vertical rectangular Room Divider composed of brown natural fibers densely interspersed with thin elongated horizontal oval fiberglass abstract wave-like forms in shades of blue, yellow, green, and white. Secured at the bottom with a horizontal wooden member and at the top suspended from a metal rod.
According to artist, the wood bar at bottom is not original and that originally had a metal bar as at the top. He describes the acrylic forms as "waves."
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
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