c.1902-1904 / Embroidered linen; silk braid, ribbon, silk appliqué, buttons, beads; faces painted in watercolor on white kid stretched over card / 69 3/4”x16 1/4” / © Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Previous November 5 posts:
November 5~ Artists at their Easels
Born November 5, 1783~ Caroline Tischbein
Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/5~
“In this quilt, Baltimore artist Stephen Towns shows us the hours before the uprising began”
2016 / Natural and synthetic fabric, nylon tulle, polyester and cotton thread,
crystal glass beads, resin and metal buttons / 35”x28 1/2”
Image belongs to the artist, photograph by Joseph Hyde
Previous October 30 posts:
Autumn~ October 30
Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/30~
Fabric, decorative objects, and personal belongings / Panels measuring 3′ by 6′ assembled into larger
12′ by 12′ blocks / Quilt is housed at NAMES Project Foundation headquarters, Atlanta, Georgia
Previous October 11 posts:
Autumn~ October 11
Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/11~
72”x36” / Cotton fabrics, stenciled, photo silk-screened. Hand and machine pieced, hand appliquéd, hand quilted
National September 11 Memorial Museum, NYC
East Village resident Drunell Levinson…announced the September 11 Quilts Memorial project on a website she created especially for that purpose. Calling on volunteers to submit 3’x 6’ or 3’x 3’ quilt panels, she left the choice of materials and the interpretation to the individual artists…By September 10, 2002, the project consisted of 94 unique quilts accompanied by artists’ statements, photographs, memorabilia, emails, and a dedicated website. ~https://www.911memorial.org/tribute/the-september-11-quilt-project
Photographs are from “September 11 Quilts”
See more at https://www.september11quilts.org/index.html
Previous September 11 posts:
Hispanic Artists~September 11
“Capturing a City’s Emotion in the Days After 9/11”
September 11: 9/11
Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/11~
Mounted ruler (so-called Horseman) / Edo peoples, Benin kingdom, Nigeria16th century / Copper alloy / 18”x11” / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Puppy Playing with a Pheasant Feather / Attributed to Yi Am16th century / 12.25”x17.25” / Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk / Philadelphia Museum of Art
4th–6th century / Wool and linen / 12 13/16”x24 5/16” / The Met
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Wall Panel with a Charging Boar / Sasanian period, Ctesiphon, Mesopotamiac.6th century A.D. / Stucco / 11 5/8”x15” / The Met
Autumn from the series “The Four Seasons” by David Teniers the Youngerc.1644 / Oil on copper / 8 3/4”x6 2/5” / National Gallery, London
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Late 18th century / Painted and printed gold & silver leaf and opaque watercolor on indigo-dyed cotton
97 5/8”x103 1/8” / Metropolitan Museum of Art
Untitled (Self-portrait from Kitchen Table series) by Carrie Mae Weems1990 / Gelatin silver print / 28.3”x28.3” / Various
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Self Portrait in a Yellow Waistcoat1993 / Oil on canvas / 32”x18”
/ Royal Holloway, University of London
Charles was a designer with an eye for form. Ray was an artist with an eye for color. They complemented each other on projects like coat hangers, films, their namesake chairs, and large architectural projects. Through four decades of creative work, they revolutionized design and created an indelible mark on American History. The duo was not without faults, but the pair proved to be inseparable and inspirational. They were the Eameses.
The Eames studio—part workshop, part circus—
was a partnership of two free spirits: one, an architecture school dropout who never got his license; the other, a painter trained by Hans Hofmann who used objects or any other surface as her canvases. They shunned the term “artist” as pompous.
Charles and Ray Eames arrived in Los Angeles in 1941, a year after they met at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Charles was married to his first wife, Catherine at the time, but Ray began assisting him and Eero Saarinen in their designs for the Museum of Modern Art’s Organic Design in Home Furnishings Competition, and soon he divorced Catherine and married Ray.
The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention
AD Classics: Eames House / Charles and Ray Eames
The Love Letters of Charles & Ray Eames
