GLORIA F. ROSS: REBIRTH OF MODERN TAPESTRY, the premier show at Jane Kahan’s new exhibition space, opened with a dazzling vernissage the evening of February 11, 2011.  The show, which runs until March 25th Tuesday – Fridays at Jane Kahan Fine Art, 330 East 59th Street, in Manhattan, celebrates the tapestries created by top American artists and some of the best weavers in the world under the auspices of Ross.  The whole incredible story is told in the definitive new book,  GLORIA F. ROSS & MODERN TAPESTRY (Yale University Press) by Dr. Ann Lane Hedlund who heads Ross’s legacy foundation at the University of Arizona.   Ann was present to sign copies of her book and greet members of the Ross family, weavers, curators, collectors, scholars who were in town for the College Art Association‘s annual conference, and luminaries from the art world.

Jane Kahan is privileged to be able to exhibit these  tapestries, some for the first time publicly.  Lenders to the exhibition include the artist Clifford Ross, Gloria Ross’s son, the Wells Fargo Art Collection, Judy Frances Zankel, Earl Davis who worked with Gloria Ross to create tapestries of Stuart Davis’s work, the Bernard Museum of Judaica Congregation Emanuel of the City of New York, Peter and Aileen Godsick, the Kenneth Nolan archives and others.