Artist Textiles: Picasso to Warhol
Tracing the history of 20th-century art in textiles with rare examples from leading art movements such as Cubism, Surrealism and Pop Art.
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Tracing the history of 20th-century art in textiles with rare examples from leading art movements such as Cubism, Surrealism and Pop Art.
See current exhibitionsThis exhibition traces the history of 20th-century art in textiles. Highlights include work by Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Sonia Delaunay, Raoul Dufy, Barbara Hepworth, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Ben Nicholson and Andy Warhol.
The exhibition features examples of key European and American art movements: Fauvism, Cubism, Constructivism, Abstraction, Surrealism and Pop Art; as well as the work of leading fashion designers and manufacturers. Artist Textiles shows how ordinary people were once able to engage with modern art in a personal and intimate way through their clothing and home furnishings. With over 200 rare pieces, many of which have not been on public display before.
This exhibition is currently on tour at Fundación Barrié, A Coruña, Spain from 12 March - 19 June 2022 and will be available for hire from July 2022.
You can learn more about the museum’s touring exhibitions programme and contact us for further information.
Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China
October 2019
Modern Art Museum, Shanghai, China
May – September 2019
New Lanark, World Heritage Site, South Lanarkshire, UK
26 January – 29 April 2018
Textilmuseet, Borås, Sweden
16 April – 25 September 2016
Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Canada
2 May – 4 October 2015
American Textile History Museum, Lowell, USA
21 November 2014 – 29 March 2015
TextielMuseum, Tilburg, The Netherlands
14 June – 14 September 2014
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In place of a permanent display, the Fashion and Textile Museum hosts a diverse programme of temporary exhibitions, displaying a broad range of innovative fashion and textiles from designers and makers around the world.
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