Whole and Half Moons
2007
Ethel Stein (American, 1917-2018) United States
New York
According to Lucy Commoner, author of an insightful essay about Stein, the artist’s “pieces woven with only black-and-white warps and wefts achieve a wide range of gray-scale values through the manipulation of the weave structures.” This is indeed the achievement represented by powerful works such as Whole and Half Moons.
Two panels: cotton, satin weave damask; woven on a loom with a drawloom attachment fabricated by the artist