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Title
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Wall Tile # 18, from the Wall Hangings Series
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Creator
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Liz Whitney Quisgard
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Artist ID
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191
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Date of Work
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2005
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Description
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Square weaving made of multiple vibrant colors of yarn in symmetrical geometric shapes.
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Category of Media
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textile weaving
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Media
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yarn on buckram
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Accession Number
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2014.003
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Location
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storage - 0449 flat file - drawer 2
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Date Acquired
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2014
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Acquisition Method
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Donation, unrestricted
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Dimensions of Work
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29" x 28"
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Donor ID
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191
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Artist Bio
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Originally from Baltimore, Liz Whitney Quisgard (born 1929) lives and works in New York City. Quisgard graduated from the Maryland Institute’s College of Art, earned her MFA at the Maryland Institute Rinehart School of Sculpture, and attended the Maryland Institute School of Architectural Design and Drafting (MICA). She has taught at MICA, Goucher College, and the University of Maryland.
Among her numerous grants and awards is the prestigious Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant. She has been chosen for residencies at the Millay Colony and the Yaddo Colony, among others.
Liz Whitney Quisgard has had solo exhibitions of her work at numerous museums and galleries including the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN; the Museum of Geometric and MADI Art, Dallas TX; the Phillips Art Museum, Franklin Marshall College, Lancaster, PA; Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY; the Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA; the Department of Cultural Affairs, City Hall Gallery, Charleston, SC; the Gilchrist Museum, Cumberland, MD; the Shakolsky Foundation, Jim Thorp, PA; the Loveland Museum, Loveland, CO; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; the Visual Arts Association, Louisville, KY; the Gibson Gallery, Art Museum of the State University of New York at Potsdam; the Flaten Art Museum, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN; the Union Theological Seminary, New York, NY, and many more. Her work is included in the permanent collections of 47 museums, as well as corporate and private collections across the United States.
Artist website: http://www.lizquisgard.com/
