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Artists›Sheila Hicks

Sheila Hicks

Artist

WA-00027573

TextileConceptual Art

Representation

None documented

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Authority Records (3)

WikidataQ3481752 ULAN500110474

MoMA

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Wall Hangings

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1969

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Recent Acquisitions: Design Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1967–1968

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Greetings!

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1966

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Recent Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1960–1961

Field Verification (1 fields)

0 cross-verified · 1 single-source

LocationGallery Generic· 72%

Source Registry (2)

Marianne-Boeskyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/sheila-hicks
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/2631
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

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Movement

Conceptual Art

Medium

Textile

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Museum of Modern ArtNew York Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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Artworks (40)

Minime (Four Tunnels of Exploration)

2015 · Wool, linen, cotton, razor clam shells

8 1/8 × 11 7/8" (20.6 × 30.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Minime

2014 · Linen and silk

9 1/2 × 5 1/2" (24.1 × 14 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Pillar of Inquiry/Supple Column

2013 · Acrylic fiber

204 x 48 x 48 inches (variable)

Museum of Modern Art

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Escargots (group)

2003 · industrial-weight linen, dyed, wrapped around flat strips of cork

Overall: 10.8 x 61 cm (4 1/4 x 24 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Steichen's Pond

1995 · Pieces of paper; stitched with cotton and polyester with spots of plain interlacings and darning stitches; knotted fringe

37.5 × 23.5 cm (14 3/4 × 9 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Éventail (Fan)

1990 · Skeins of linen, wrapped with pearl cotton, couched with linen to handmade paper with imbedded hemp fibers; backed with linen, plain weave

91.5 × 160.1 cm (36 × 63 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Battle Strategy

1990 · Hand-made paper (washi); stitched with silk thread

55.6 × 66.7 cm (21 3/8 × 26 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Rick Rack, Riff Raff

1987 · Cotton thread and rickrack: hand weaving

Overall: 58 x 47.5 x 3 cm (22 13/16 x 18 11/16 x 1 3/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Weft Wandering Astray

1985 · Linen and silk, bands of plain weave open work with discontinuous wefts and supplementary brocading weft, warp-float faced twill weave, and plain weave self-patterned with main warp floats; main warp fringe

230.1 × 44.5 cm (90 5/8 × 17 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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The Principal Wife

1984 · linen, rayon, acrylic yarns

Overall: 254 x 203.2 x 20.4 cm (100 x 80 x 8 1/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Ephemera Bundle

1975 · Silk: wrapping

Overall: 33.7 x 27 x 11.5 cm (13 1/4 x 10 5/8 x 4 1/2 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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M’hamid

1970 · Silk, vicuna, razor clam shell: tapestry weave

Overall: 23.5 x 17.8 cm (9 1/4 x 7 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Panel for interior of Air France Boeing 747 aircraft

1969 · Embroidered silk on polished cotton

51 3/4 × 157 × 2" (131.4 × 398.8 × 5.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Untitled

1968 · Wool: tabby weaving and wrapping

Overall: 20.3 x 14 cm (8 x 5 1/2 in.); Mounted: 30.5 x 22.9 cm (12 x 9 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Sample (Ford Foundation Program)

1967 · Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in surface satin stitches over circular metal plate

45.9 × 38.4 cm (18 × 15 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sample (Ford Foundation Program)

1967 · Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in surface satin stitches over cardboard disk

46 × 38.4 cm (18 1/8 × 15 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Study for the Ford Foundation Installation

1967 · linen ground with inset linen thread

Overall: 45.7 x 38.1 x 2.5 cm (18 x 15 x 1 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Echantillon: Dove Wing (Sample for a textile wall at the Ford Foundation, New York)

1967 · Linen and silk

39 1/4 x 31 1/2" (99.7 x 80 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Echantillon: Medallion (Sample for a textile wall at the Ford Foundation, New York)

1967 · Linen and silk

39 1/2 x 29" (100.3 x 73.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Evolving Tapestry: He/She

1967 · Linen and silk

Dimensions variable

Museum of Modern Art

Badagara

1965 · Cotton, plain weave with supplementary wadding

227 × 192.8 cm (89 3/8 × 75 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Quipu blanco

1965 · Wool

59 1/16 × 23 5/8 × 3 15/16" (150 × 60 × 10 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Prayer Rug

1965 · Hand-spun wool

87 x 43" (221 x 109.2 cm)

14 1/2 x 17" (36.8 x 43.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (3)

40 published of 61 catalogued · 42 with image

MoMA
21 publishedof 42 catalogued30 img
Art Institute Chicago
12 published12 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
7 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 7)

7 entries · 1 sources

The Principal Wife
1984 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Escargots (group)
2003 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Rick Rack, Riff Raff
1987 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Study for the Ford Foundation Installation
1967 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Untitled
1968 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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M’hamid
1970 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Ephemera Bundle
1975 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Record

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Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

Movements1

Conceptual Art

Collections4

Museum of Modern Art Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

In collection

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition Wall Hangings

New York · 1969

Group Exhibition Recent Acquisitions: Design Collection

New York · 1967

Group Exhibition Greetings!

New York · 1966

Group Exhibition Recent Acquisitions

New York · 1960

Exhibition New Work: Sheila Hicks