Helena Hernmarck: Tapestry Artist

A renowned textile artist, Hernmarck was born and educated in Sweden, but since 1975 has lived , worked, and led a highly distinguised career in the United States. In the freely experimental world of American textile art, she is unique in upholding and expanding on her Swedish textile heritage: traditional weaving techniques and narrative images. Her métier, too, is unique- large tapestries for public spaces, often produced in cooperation with renowned architects such as I.M. Pei and Philip Johnson. Since the late sixties, her work has evolved from exhibiting a photorealist style to creating monumental works that have graced buildings around the world. Today, she has returned to a more intimate scale, working from her own watercolors and collages of letters and papers.

By Monica Boman and Patricia Malarcher, paperback, 128 pages, 11”x 9”, 49 clor ilustrations, 19 black & white ilustrations, in Swedish

Inset photo: Original Tapestry, "Folk Costume Details", 15 feet 4" x 9 feet 7", wool, linen and cotton, made by Helena Hernmarck. Commissioned by the American Swedish Institute in 2006. Single Card with envelope 8 1/4" x 5 3/4". Blank inside.