Cindy Hickok (American). Tea with Good Friends. 2010. Freestyle machine embroidery with rayon thread and colored pencil. Neusteter Textile Collection: Funds from Miss Leah Helfer by exchange. 2010.385.

frame height: 17 in, 43.1800 cm; frame width: 21 3/16 in, 53.8163 cm; frame depth: 1 1/8 in, 2.8575 cm; sight height: 11 in, 27.9400 cm; sight width: 15 1/4 in, 38.7350 cm

RECTO: Signed, bottom right corner "Tea with Good Friends, Cindy Hickok" VERSO: Handwritten lower right Tea with Good Friends - Cindy Hickok Typed on separate page adhered to center Tea drinkers adapted from, clockwise from top: The Creation, by Michelangelo. The Tea Drinker, by Mary Cassatt. The Ironer(s), by Edgar Degas. Nude in an Armchair, Pablo Picasso. Mona Lisa, by Leonardo DaVinci. Mother, by James Whistler. Venus, by Sandro Botticelli. Automat, by Edward Hopper. The Arnolfini Marriage, by Jan VanEyck. Jeanne Heburterne, by Amadeo Modigliani. American Gothic, by Grant Wood. Night Cafe, by Paul Gaugin. Olympia, by Edouard Manet. Men Drinking (after Daumier), by Vincent VanGogh. Yvette Gilbert, by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. The Card Player(s), by Paul Cezanne.

Avenir Institute of Textile Arts and Fashion

Textile Arts and Fashion-Contemporary

Placing iconic figures from well-known paintings together in an unlikely setting, Hickok takes her characters out of context to create humorous compositions on unconventional themes. Equally unusual is her technique. She embroiders on a water-soluble ground fabric that disappears when wet, leaving the pictorial elements held together solely by the stitches.

Purchased May 2008 from Jane Sauer Gallery [Santa Fe, NM] by the Denver Art Museum

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