Essential Design 
26 September 2024
Essential Design 
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Richard Landis

Textile

USA, c. 1975
woven cloth 34½ h × 9 w in (88 × 23 cm)
estimate: $3,000–5,000
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Color Decoded: The Textiles of Richard Landis

Watch an Extended Interview with Richard Landis and Cooper Hewitt

Richard Landis b. 1931

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Richard W. Landis is a designer-weaver from Long Beach, California. He studied art and design at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. Landis spent 1953-1954 with the United States military in Korea and Japan, becoming familiar with the art and crafts of those cultures. This experience led him to weaving, which he began in earnest in 1964.

Landis was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Craftsman's Fellowship in 1977. Individual and group exhibitions of his work have been held in private and public galleries in Arizona, California and New York from 1969 through 1982.

Collections of Landis' work are in the Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Museum of Art, The Netherlands and the Rhode Island School of Design.

The Art Fabric: Mainstream by Mildred Constantine and Jack Lenor Larsen references Landis, illustrating one of his weaving titled "12 Tone Study".

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