Studio Landscape

Studio Landscape

Jean Stamsta

1977

Materials

Dyed wool yarn, synthetic yarn, and polyester fiberfill

Size

75 x 100 x 1 1/2 inches

Racine Art Museum, Gift of the Artist and Kohler Foundation, Inc.

About the artwork.

Rooted in Wisconsin, Jean Stamsta studied at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Fiberwork Center for the Textile Arts in San Francisco, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine. Long a fan of intense color, Stamsta is known for creating abstract compositions, sculptural forms, imaginative landscapes, and still-lives, and for pioneering the technique of “tubular weaving”—which is exemplified with this piece.