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Selected works from the
38th Annual Fine Arts Exhibition
Jul/Aug 2012
MANAMA
CAPITAL
OF
ARAB
CULTURE
2012
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Jul/Aug
Museum
Secret Garden 
Philadelphia Museum of Art
until 26 August
Printed Textile: "Terra Vista", c. 1978. Henry Kluck, American, 1922 - 2007. Black, brown, gray, and white print on linen and cotton plain weave, 8 feet 4 1/2 inches x 4 feet 8 1/2 inches (255.3 x 143.5 cm). Philadelphia Museum of Art, Purchased with the Costume and Textiles Revolving Fund, 2011 The Inner Tree, c. 1977. Ted Hallman, American, born 1933. Knit acrylic yarn, steel, 90 x 63 1/2 x 30 3/4 inches (228.6 x 161.3 x 78.1 cm). Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gift of the Women's Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Turmoil in Full Bloom, 1977-87. Sheila Hicks, American, born 1934. Cotton. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gift of an anonymous donor, 2011. Every Touch, 1995. Jim Hodges, American, born 1957. Silk fabric, 14 x 16 feet (426.7 x 487.7 cm). Philadelphia Museum of Art, Purchased with funds contributed by Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Dixon Stroud, 1995. Printed Textile, 1947. June Groff, American, 1903 - 1974. Hand screen-printed cotton, 169 3/4 x 41 1/4 inches (431.2 x 104.8 cm). Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gift of the artist, 1948.
Uniting fabric sculptures and hand-printed textiles from the Museum’s collection, Secret Garden features three American artists whose
works in fiber embrace the idea of a garden as a personal metaphor. Ted Hallman’s sculpture, The Inner Tree (1977), evokes the
physical and spiritual world while addressing Hallman’s longstanding interest in healing and psychotherapy. A monumental knitted
work, The Inner Tree is an experiment in textile structure, with knotted acrylic yarns over steel armatures. Sheila Hicks’ Wow
Bush/Turmoil in Full Bloom (1977) is an installation piece constructed from nurses’s uniforms from the Cantonal Hospital in
Lausanne, Switzerland, dyed in shades of lavender, yellow, and red. These garments have been torn into strips and knotted, meshed,
and sewn together into a freestanding work that takes on any configuration and adapts to any space. Originally installed in 1977 at the
Biennial of Tapestry in Lausanne,Wow Bush is often considered a turning point in the evolution of the tapestry medium. In Jim Hodges’
Every Touch (1995), thousands of artificial flowers were disassembled and reassembled in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop
and Museum in Philadelphia to create a dramatic lacelike curtain of cascading petals. The work’s title addresses the labor-intensive
process of its shared construction and is also a meditation on the elusiveness of beauty. The three artists’ works are complemented
by hand screenprints produced in the same period by textile designers Elenhank (Eleanor and Henry Kluck), June Groff, Jack Lenor
Larsen, and D. D. and Leslie Tillett. The show coincides with the still lifes and landscapes in the Museum’s Van Gogh Up Close
exhibition, the Philadelphia International Flower Show (March 4-11), and FiberPhiladelphia (March-April).
Curator: Dilys Blum, The Jack M. and Annette Y. Friedland Senior Curator of Costume and Textiles
Location: Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building, Spain Gallery