Lot #142 - Harriet Tannin, 1929-2009 (USA)
Harriet Tannin, 1929-2009 (USA)
Estimate: 100 - 200 £
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Harriet Tannin (1929-2009).
Woven photography.
Dimensions: 22 x 20 cm (8 2/3 x 8 inches)
Harriet Tannin, photographer, painter, sculptor, political activist, writer, and lecturer was born on April 26, 1929. She is best known for her modernist, pioneer work with woven photography and her non-objective oil paintings. She is considered the first woman artist in America to weave modern art photography, thus making her the leader in this unique medium. Tannin holds a BA from New York University, 1951, and a Masters of Fine Art, State University of NY, New Paltz, 1975. She studied photography with the internationally famous photographer Ansel Adams and painting with a modern master, Rolph Scarlett. Scarlett was the first American artist to exhibit abstract artworks next to Kandinsky's art in the original Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Non-Objective Art in New York City. Each of these talented artists had a profound effect on Tannin's work, it was this synthesis of styles and her allegiance to political activism that led to the creation of her woven wonders. Tannin remembers: “I was participating in a group exhibit and was approached by one of the artists who derided most of the participating women artists in the exhibit. He callously went on to expand on his theory that women were inferior in art as well as most other areas. Irritated, I told him, what, it should be like when boys played stickball on the streets and the girls sat on the curb watching while weaving pot holders. Tongue in cheek, I added, in those days, women knew their place. The idea struck me all at once, and immediately upon returning to my studio, I started to cut my photographs into strips and weave them just the way I made potholders on the street for fun when I was a child. I did, and was delighted with the results and the liberating experience these works imparted.” These cutting-edge woven photographs can be viewed as seminal artistic/political statements that capture the essence of childhood, feminist independence, and mastery over the medium of modern art photography. She has exhibited her artwork extensively at the following museums: Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, NY, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, NY, Maurice Pine Free Public Library Gallery, Fair Lawn, NJ, The Well, Legislative Office Building, Albany, NY, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, National Association of Women Artists, New York, NY (Karasick Prize), A&E Television Unmentionables: A Brief History; Hudson Valley Artists; Center for Book Arts, NY, Hudson Valley Artists, College Art Gallery, S.U.N.Y., 25 Women Artists, Woodstock Artists Association, The National Museum for Women in the Arts, Wash. DC, Washington Square East, NY, Munson-Williams Proctor Museum. Tannin's works are included in various important public and private collections including: The Permanent Collection of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, S.U.N.Y. New Paltz; the Woodstock Artist's Association, Woodstock, NY; and others. Written and submitted December 2004 by Blake Benton, Levis Benton Fine Art.
Woven photography.
Dimensions: 22 x 20 cm (8 2/3 x 8 inches)
Harriet Tannin, photographer, painter, sculptor, political activist, writer, and lecturer was born on April 26, 1929. She is best known for her modernist, pioneer work with woven photography and her non-objective oil paintings. She is considered the first woman artist in America to weave modern art photography, thus making her the leader in this unique medium. Tannin holds a BA from New York University, 1951, and a Masters of Fine Art, State University of NY, New Paltz, 1975. She studied photography with the internationally famous photographer Ansel Adams and painting with a modern master, Rolph Scarlett. Scarlett was the first American artist to exhibit abstract artworks next to Kandinsky's art in the original Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Non-Objective Art in New York City. Each of these talented artists had a profound effect on Tannin's work, it was this synthesis of styles and her allegiance to political activism that led to the creation of her woven wonders. Tannin remembers: “I was participating in a group exhibit and was approached by one of the artists who derided most of the participating women artists in the exhibit. He callously went on to expand on his theory that women were inferior in art as well as most other areas. Irritated, I told him, what, it should be like when boys played stickball on the streets and the girls sat on the curb watching while weaving pot holders. Tongue in cheek, I added, in those days, women knew their place. The idea struck me all at once, and immediately upon returning to my studio, I started to cut my photographs into strips and weave them just the way I made potholders on the street for fun when I was a child. I did, and was delighted with the results and the liberating experience these works imparted.” These cutting-edge woven photographs can be viewed as seminal artistic/political statements that capture the essence of childhood, feminist independence, and mastery over the medium of modern art photography. She has exhibited her artwork extensively at the following museums: Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, NY, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, NY, Maurice Pine Free Public Library Gallery, Fair Lawn, NJ, The Well, Legislative Office Building, Albany, NY, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, National Association of Women Artists, New York, NY (Karasick Prize), A&E Television Unmentionables: A Brief History; Hudson Valley Artists; Center for Book Arts, NY, Hudson Valley Artists, College Art Gallery, S.U.N.Y., 25 Women Artists, Woodstock Artists Association, The National Museum for Women in the Arts, Wash. DC, Washington Square East, NY, Munson-Williams Proctor Museum. Tannin's works are included in various important public and private collections including: The Permanent Collection of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, S.U.N.Y. New Paltz; the Woodstock Artist's Association, Woodstock, NY; and others. Written and submitted December 2004 by Blake Benton, Levis Benton Fine Art.
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