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Eyedazzler Rug
Eyedazzler Rug

Eyedazzler Rug

Artist Julia Upshaw (North American Indian, Navajo, born 1938)
Date2000
MediumCommercial machine-spun synthetic-dyed and vegetal-dyed wool yarn
DimensionsOverall: 60 × 40 inches (152.4 × 101.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Susan and Conrad De Jong
Object number2016.20.1
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DescriptionWoven rug with overlapping horizontal and diagonal planes creating a zigzag like appearance simulating a wedge weave blanket. Woven in natural white, brown, gray, pink, orange, red, burgundy, sage green, dark green, lilac, purple, gold, light blue, dark blue and coral.Exhibition History

Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation, 1, Contemporary Native American Art from the Southwest, American Craft Museum, New York, May 9-September 15, 2002; Museum of Texas University, Lubbock, October 13, 2002-January 5, 2003; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, January 19-March 16, 2003, unnumbered.

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Susan and Conrad De Jong, Santa Fe, 2002-2016;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016

Published References

David McFadden, Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation, 1, Contemporary Native American Art from the Southwest, exh. cat. (London, England: Merrell Publishers Limited, 2002), 29, 41.

Torrence, Gaylord, ed. Continuum: North American Native Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Copyright© Julia Upshaw
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