CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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Manchu woman’s robe, China, late 19th century.
The Textile Museum 2007.13.4.
Donated by Elizabeth Ickes.
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Recent Acquisitions
March 6, 2009 - January 3, 2010
In the past eight decades, The Textile Museum’s collection has grown from a modest group of 275 rugs and 60 related textiles to nearly 18,000 objects from around the world. Each year, through the generosity of private donors and through income from endowed funds, the Museum’s holdings continue to evolve.
This exhibition will celebrate the Museum’s rich collection and share with the public a selection of 20 of the most artistically and culturally compelling objects The Textile Museum has acquired within the last five years. Exhibited objects will include hats from Peru and Cameroon and a turban from India; a contemporary batik from Java, Indonesia; a Turkish prayer rug; a grass raincoat from China; and an ikat coat from the Megalli Collection, which was donated in 2005 and will be featured in a Textile Museum exhibition planned for 2010.
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Center Diamond. Circa 1920-1940.
Maker unknown, probably made in Lancaster County, PA. International
Quilt Study Center & Museum, Jonathan Holstein Collection,
2003.003.0071. |
Constructed Color:
Amish Quilts
April 4 – Sept. 6, 2009
Amish quilts are among the most striking and famous of all American
quilt types. Renowned for their play of color and strong geometric
patterns, their similarities to modern art have been noted ever since
the 1971 exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in
New York, Abstract Design in American Quilts.
Constructed Color features a selection of 29 pieces from
the finest group of Amish quilts in the world. The exhibition will
illustrate the visual connections between Amish quilts and mid-20th
century art and show how variations in the quilts reveal the choices
of individual Amish communities. The quilts are all drawn from
collections at the International Quilt Study Center at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln: the Jonathan Holstein Collection, featuring
quilts from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; the Ardis and Robert
James Collection and the Sara Miller Collection, focusing on quilts from Midwestern communities; and
the Henry and Jill Barber Collection, featuring quilts from Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.
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UPCOMING
EXHIBITIONS
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Dress, Fall/Winter 1990/91 (Pleated red dress),
Issey Miyake (b. 1938), Japan.
The Mary Baskett Collection. |
Contemporary Japanese Fashion:
The Mary Baskett Collection
Oct. 17, 2009 – April 11, 2010
In the 1970s and early 1980s, Japanese designers Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto shocked the fashion world by introducing avant-garde styles that challenged received Western notions of “chic.” Informed in part by Japanese traditions such as the kimono, obi and the art of origami, these designers produced radical garments with shapes and textures often incongruous with the natural contours of the human body. Their designs—characterized by asymmetry, raw edges, unconventional construction, oversized proportions and monochromatic palettes—effectively overthrew existing norms and set the stage for the postmodernist movement in the fashion industry. Miyake, Yamamoto, and Kawakubo remain three of the most successful designers in today’s fashion world, and under their tutelage a new generation of Japanese talent has emerged.
This exhibition, which was originally shown at the Cincinnati Art Museum, will include garments from the collection of Mary Baskett, an art dealer and former curator of prints at the Cincinnati Art Museum who has been collecting and wearing Japanese high fashion since the 1960s.
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