Wie das Gras (Like the Grass)
- Artist
- Lissy Funk
- Date
- 1977
- Medium
- Linen, plain weave; backed with cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk and linen and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in stem, satin, long and short, padded satin and variations on buttonhole stitches; French knots; laid work and couching; glass beads
- Materials
- glass, silk (fiber)
- Dimensions
- 207.3 × 255.3 cm (81 5/8 × 100 1/2 in.)
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Credit
- Gift in part from Rosina Kuhn-Funk and Cyril Kuhn; purchased with funds provided by Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Foundation in memory of Alice Welsh Skilling; The Christa C. Mayer Thurman Textile Endowment; Textile Society; Louise Lutz Endowment; Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Fund; Nicole Williams Contemporary Textile Fund; Edward M. Cummings Endowment; Margaret W. and John V. Farwell III Endowment; purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Louis Sudler Jr.
Exhibition history
Cite this work
Lissy Funk, Wie das Gras (Like the Grass), 1977, Linen, plain weave; backed with cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk and linen and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in stem, satin, long and short, padded satin and variations on buttonhole stitches; French knots; laid work and couching; glass beads, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.
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Gift in part from Rosina Kuhn-Funk and Cyril Kuhn; purchased with funds provided by Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Foundation in memory of Alice Welsh Skilling; The Christa C. Mayer Thurman Textile Endowment; Textile Society; Louise Lutz Endowment; Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Fund; Nicole Williams Contemporary Textile Fund; Edward M. Cummings Endowment; Margaret W. and John V. Farwell III Endowment; purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Louis Sudler Jr.
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