These miniatures, selected from a group of twenty acquired by the Museum, represent nearly fifty years of Sheila Hicks's extraordinary career. Created on a small portable loom she carries when traveling, each is a reflection on a particular time and place, as well as a technical experiment, exploring new materials and infinite variations on interlacing threads.

Kilometer 177½

Sheila Hicks

Paris, France, 2002-03

Cotton, leather, silk, linen, wool

Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund, 2006-13-6

photo: Bastiaan VandenBerg