"Red Trees, " 1966 Tapestry by Jan Yoors

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"Red Trees, " 1966 Tapestry by Jan Yoors

About the Item

"Red Trees," 1966, signed and dated lower right. An original, one-of-a-kind, rectangular, hand-woven tapestry with deep black background and bold red trees. Exhibitions: 1969: January The Society of the four arts, Palm Beach, FL March 11, Washington, D.C. 1969 Valley house gallery and sculpture garden In Dallas TX 1973: Fine arts gallery of San Diego, California 1975: University of art museum, Austin, TX. Similar examples of Yoors’ work is found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Arts and Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian Institution’s American Art Museum, Archives of American Art, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. His tapestries have recently received coverage in the New York Times, Modern Magazine, Art in America, and Metropolis Magazine. His work was most recently featured in Architectural Digest, Vogue, and Elle Décor. Jan Yoors is one the most seminal artists in textile of the 20th century. In the past five years, he has had close to a dozen solo exhibitions across Europe and the United States including a major retrospective at the FeliXart Museum in Belgium and at the Baker Museum in Florida, with accompanying catalogues of each publishes. A photographic presentation at the Red Star Line Museum took place in 2015. Jan Yoors was born in Antwerp, Belgium to a cultured, liberal family of artists. At the age of twelve he ran off with a Gypsy tribe and lived with the Kumpania on and off for the next ten years. During World War II, the artist worked with the Allies to help the Gypsies. His memoir of this period, “The Gypsies”, was published in 1965 and remains a seminal work on the subject.

Creator:
Jan Yoors (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 94.75 in (240.67 cm)Width: 76 in (193.04 cm)Depth: 0.5 in (1.27 cm)
Materials and Techniques:
Wool,Hand-Knotted
Place of Origin:
Belgium
Period:
1960-1969
Date of Manufacture:
1966
Condition:
Seller Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: 1307128180937