New York Harbor
- Date
- c.1928
- Material
- Wool and linen
- depicts
- New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
- made in
- United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Coverings & hangings, textiles
- Collection
- Decorative Arts and Design
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 60 1/4 x 27 5/8 in. (153.0 x 70.2 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Weavers' Guild of St. Louis
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 141:1952
NOTES
Symbols of modernity—ocean liners, airplanes, and skyscrapers—intermingle with old-fashioned sailboats and bridges in this stylized view of New York Harbor from 1928. Lillian Glaser, a native of Belleville, Illinois, wove this pictorial textile on a handloom, a slow and technically complex process. Glaser taught weaving at Washington University in St. Louis and was a founding member of the city’s Weavers’ Guild. She likely envisioned the design for this wall hanging on a 1925–26 leave of absence to pursue her artistic education in New York.
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