The Jane Kahan Gallery will open its new exhibition space with a show devoted to rare tapestries by American artists.  Many of these tapestries have been included in the collections of museums including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and so on.

GLORIA F. ROSS: REBIRTH OF MODERN TAPESTRY will run at Jane Kahan Fine Art, 330 East 59th St., from 15 February through 25 March 2011.  Special hours for this show are Tuesday through Friday 10 am – 5 pm.  Jane Kahan Fine Art is otherwise open by appointment only.  Jane Kahan main gallery is at 922 Madison Avenue (73rd Street).

The show is being mounted to celebrate the publication of the book, Gloria F. Ross and Modern Tapestry, by textile scholar, Ann Lane Hedlund (Yale University Press ISBN 978-0-300-16635-4).

A vernissage for the show and reception for Dr. Hedlund will take place February 11, 2011 from 4:00 – 8:00 pm, at which time Ann will sign copies of her book.

Gloria F. Ross’s career stretched from the 1970s to the 1990s, during which time she brought together the top weavers in the world with American artists to reinvent the centuries-old art of tapestry in a contemporary form.  Among those whose art she worked with were her sister Helen Frankenthaler, Romare Bearden, Stuart Davis, Frank Stella, Robert Motherwell, Louise Nevelson and others (28 in all)

Ann Hedlund is curator of ethnology at the Arizona State Museum and professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She directs the University’s Gloria F. Ross Tapestry Program.  Her book is being distributed by Yale University Press. Grace Glueck, who was an art reporter, editor and critic for the New York Times for more than three decades, wrote the introduction.