INTRODUCTION - PLEASE READ THIS FIRST, THEN PAGE DOWN TO ENTER GALLERY.

Gloria Frankenthaler Ross (1923-1998) orchestrated over one hundred tapestry designs created by thirty American and European artists from 1963 to 1997. From these designs, she worked in concert with weavers and craftspeople in New York, the Navajo Nation, Scotland, France, Portugal, Turkey, and China to produce about two hundred and fifty handwoven tapestries and carpets, woven as single panels or in multiples of five to seven textiles with the same image.

This online gallery presents the known Gloria F. Ross tapestry and carpet designs as represented in the GFR Archives. We are seeking information about the ownership and location of many of these textiles—they are held in many public, corporate, and private collections in the United States and abroad. There is no centrally owned collection of GFR Tapestries. The GFR Center for Tapestry Studies, a non-profit research institute, owns no tapestries or other textiles. Only public institutions and corporations are listed here.

The GFR Center is currently working on a book-length manuscript, Gloria Frankenthaler Ross Tapestries & Carpets, 1963-1997. We welcome your comments about this web gallery and information on the whereabouts of Gloria F. Ross Tapestries and Carpets. Please contact us at tapestry@email.arizona.edu.

TITLES

Some tapestry titles are prefaced with the word “after” (as in “after This Day”). This indicates that the woven work followed from an extant artwork (painting, drawing, print, or collage) rather than from an artwork called a maquette that was created exclusively as a tapestry design. For information about the original artwork or maquettes used for each tapestry, please contact tapestry@email.arizona.edu.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The text was compiled and written from the Gloria F. Ross Archives by Ann Lane Hedlund, with assistance from Bobbie Gibel and Darden Bradshaw, Barbro Huth, Heather Mikolaj, Olga Neuts, Karen Pennesi, Nick Smith, and Li Sun as part of ongoing research for the book manuscript, Gloria Frankenthaler Ross Tapestries & Carpets, 1963-1997. We thank the owners, artists, weavers, studios, galleries, museums, and other organizations who granted permissions and provided imagery for this web presentation.

Website design, programming, and maintenance provided by Joey Ambrose of Imagine Internet LLC with programming assistance from Tony Jenicek of JWebSolutions.

COPYRIGHT

The GFR Center is committed to respecting the intellectual property rights of others. We have therefore taken all reasonable efforts to ensure that the reproduction of all content on these pages is done with full consent of copyright owners, when permission for reproduction was not already acquired by Gloria F. Ross. Gloria F. Ross Tapestries and Tapis are copyrighted by the individual artists, their estates, or their assigns, except where specifically noted. We are grateful to the executors of the Gloria F. Ross estate for permission to reproduce many images here. The Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY and Visual Artists and Galleries Association, Inc. (VAGA), New York, NY, provide excellent resources for copyright research.

Text, web design, graphics, and related artwork: © The Gloria F. Ross Center for Tapestry Studies. Copyright and other proprietary rights may be held by individuals or entities other than, or in addition to, the GFR Center. It is prohibited to reproduce, modify, adapt or otherwise use any of the images or information comprising or contained within this website in any manner or form without the express written permission of the copyright holders.