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Ed Rossbach
1914-2002, Chicago, Illinois


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142r TAPA CONSTRUCTION
drawn and transfer printed tapa cloth
62Ó x 40Ó, 1990
$7,500

ed rossbach
188r PAINTED NEWSPAPER
newspaper and spraypaint
5.5” x 5.5” x 9.5”, 1987
$4,000

ed rossbach 58r MORE FIBER
 mixed media
14Ó x 9Ó x 9Ó, 1987
$4,000
57r ART FORUM
mixed media
13Óx 7Ó x 7Ó, 1987
$4,000
100r KOREAN SHAPE
(Annual Report Paper), mixed media
13Ó x 9Ó x 9Ó, $4,000
101r PUFFED WHEAT
mixed media
12Ó x 8Ó x 8Ó, 1987, $4,000

Selected permanent collections and exhibition venues:
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (Wall Hangings and The New Classicism); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York; Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (Structure in Textiles); Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (The Object as Poet); Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin (Fiber R/Evolution); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; Racine Museum of Art, Wisconsin; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; Textile Museum, Washington, D.C. (solo exhibition); Seattle Art Museum, Washington; Cooper Hewitt, National Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution, New York, New York; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut; the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.

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Author: The Nature of Basketry; The Art of Paisley; The New Basketry; Baskets as Textile Art; John McQueen: The Language of Containment and other works.

Recipient: Gold Medal, American Craft Council.



44r EL SALVADOR
muslin, camouflage netting, sticks, plastic, plastic tape, wire, tied, dyed, linoleum block printed, contructed
15.5Ó x 15.5Ó x 13Ó
1984
$5,000

Statement:
“Well, I love all this mixture of things that people might interpret in various ways that I didn’t intend,” Ed Rossbach observed several years before his death. “I think it’s sort of amusing to have people misunderstand things and take things seriously that you mean not to be serious. Of course I don’t persuade myself that people think much about these things at all; I think they just sort of pass before their eyes. May-be somebody will think a little bit about it, but I don’t think anybody is very concerned about what the meaning is of what I’m doing. I think it’s very unusual for people to look seriously at what someone else is offering as a work of art. You’re very much doing it for yourself. And I suppose that’s the essence of what I’m doing….” From: Musings on a Gallery Project for Fiberworks, 1979.
                                                                                                             Ed Rossbach
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  34r BOBBIN LACE
  WITH OPENINGS
  plastic tubing, bobbin lace  20.5Ó x 44.5Ó, 1970
  $7,000
cat 6 cover cat 17 cover Catalog 18 Catalog 21
Catalog #6
Ed Rossbach
Katherine Westphal
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10TH WAVE PART 1:
New Baskets and
Freestanding Sculpture
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10TH WAVE PART II:
New Textiles and
Fiber Wall Art
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ART OF SUBSTANCE
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cat 33 cover    
Catalog #33
BEYOND WEAVING: International ArtTextiles
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The Grotta House by Richard Meier Book #28
THE GROTTA HOUSE BY RICHARD MEIER
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