This set of 12 notecards (two of each of six styles) features reproductions of the following artworks by Patrick Hunter: Prayer Carrier, Turtle Island, Journey, Blue Jay, Spirit of the Mooz, and Blue Heron. 

Made in Canada
Card dimensions: 16 x 10.7 cm (6.3 x 4.2 in.)
Blank inside; bilingual text on box and back of cards 
Envelopes are included

Lynne Cooke

This transformative exhibition explores how abstract art and woven textiles have intertwined over the past hundred years.

In the 20th century, textiles were often considered lesser – as applied art, women’s work, or domestic craft. Woven Histories challenges the hierarchies that have separated textiles from fine arts. Putting into dialogue some 130 works by more than 45 creators from across generations and continents, the exhibition explores the contributions weaving and related techniques have made to abstraction, modernism’s pre-eminent art form.

See a variety of textile techniques including weaving, knitting, netting, knotting and felting. Learn about the wide-ranging reasons artists from Anni Albers to Rosemarie Trockel and Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians/Cherokee Nation) have engaged with this art form. Some seek to effect social change; others address political issues. Engaging with textiles as subject, material and technique, still others revitalize abstraction’s formal conventions or critique its patriarchal history and gendered identity.

Follow this hidden thread of art history to discover the work of creators who were once marginalized for their gender, race or class.

Hardcover
24 x 28 cm (9.5 x 11 in.)
Publication date: 2024

The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in collaboration with the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

These earrings feature a goldfinch from the painting Yellow Birds (c. 1960s) by Maud Lewis (1903–1970. 

Pewter 
Made in Pugwash, Nova Scotia by Basic Spirit 
Each bird is 2.5 x 1 cm (1 x 0.4 in.) 

From the collection of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

This necklace features a goldfinch from the painting Yellow Birds (c. 1960s) by Maud Lewis (1903–1970).

Pewter 
Made in Pugwash, Nova Scotia by Basic Spirit 
Chain: 42 cm (16.5 in.), charm: : 2.6 x 1 cm (1 x 0.4 in.) 

From the collection of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

This embroidered tuque features a yellow bird by Maud Lewis (1903–1970).

One size 
100% Acrylic 

From the collection of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

Get your creativity flowing with this journal featuring a detail from the painting Yellow Birds (c. 1960s) by Maud Lewis (1903–1970). 

Hardcover | 192 lined pages 
14 x 20.3 cm (5.5 x 8 in.) 
Ribbon bookmark

This lightweight, semi-transparent scarf features the painting Yellow Birds (c. 1960s) by Maud Lewis (1903–1970). 

100% Silk
50 x 180 cm (19.7 x 70.7 in.) 

From the collection of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia