Josep Royo

Spanish, born 1945

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The abstracted form of a woman is made with blocks of cherry red, pine green, cobalt blue, black, and one canary yellow-shape on this vertical, woven tapestry. The ivory-white background of the tapestry is dotted and streaked with light and dark brown and black, and it’s fringed along the bottom. The colorful shapes roughly make up the form of a person with a headdress, arms, one foot, and perhaps a skirt. A grid of red, blue, and black blocks are also in the lower right corner. The weaving is not uniform, and ends hang down in many areas. The texture varies from fine, uniform stitches to scale-like sections. The artists’ names are woven into the tapestry near the middle of the right edge, “Miró” and “Royo.”
Josep Royo, Woman, 1977, wool and cotton tapestry, Gift of the Collectors Committee and George L. Erion, 1978.23.1

Woman

Josep Royo · 1977 · wool and cotton tapestry ·  Accession ID  1978.23.1