Lillian Elliott & Pat Hickman (Berkeley, CA) Original Fiber Art Basket Signed

Description

ULTRA RARE FIND!!
Original Fiber Art Basket
Hand Signed by two Famous / Listed Artists:  Lillian Elliott & Pat Hickman
Dated:  1986
Estimated Retail / Gallery Price: ,000+
Approximate dimensions:
9" Height
10" Diameter
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Most of the pieces that were created by these two artists are currently on display in museums or held in private collections.
Many of their works are on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
It is extremely rare for an original piece of their original work to come up for sale anywhere on the market.
Please view the photos and judge the cosmetics based upon your own personal preferences.
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Some Information About the Artists:
Lillian Elliott:
Lillian Elliott studied at the Detroit Institute of Arts and Cranbrook Academy of Art, earning a master of fine arts degree in ceramics and painting in 1955. With her husband, she settled in northern California in the early 1960s, teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1966 to 1971. When her position was phased out, the artist turned to studio work and became an influential figure in San Francisco's fiber arts community. According to Pat Hickman, her longtime collaborator, Elliott began working with textiles in the 1960s, using the fibers as a painter uses color and line.  Eventually, she began creating baskets out of innovative materials such as cloth, bark, paper, twine, and zippers.
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Pat Hickman:
Pat Hickman received her master’s degree in design and textiles from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1977, and taught at many Bay Area schools for several years. In 1990 she began teaching at the University of Hawaii, where she led the fiber arts program. The artist has noted that the Koolau Mountains running along the spine of Oahu remind her of textiles, “velvety and pleated.” This natural landscape has inspired Hickman to work not only with fibers but with the bark and branches of trees, which she associates with life. Some of these sculptures remain in their natural state, while others are then cast in metals (
Artists of
Hawaii
, ’99
).