Marilyn/Marilyn
Artist:
Marilyn Lanfear
(American, 1930 - 2020)
Place made:San Antonio, Texas, United States
Date: 1994
Medium: Handmade paper
Dimensions:
51 × 37 1/2 in. (129.5 × 95.3 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Marilyn Lanfear
Object number: 2016.33.2
Copyright: © Estate of Marilyn Lanfear
Label Text
I find myself always needing to learn how to do something new. —Marilyn Lanfear
All the women in Lanfear’s family were seamstresses, except for Lanfear herself who didn’t sew until later in life. Lanfear recalls that her mother would sew clothes for her and her brother, Ben. As a self-portrait, the artist recreated a garment from her childhood based on a photograph of her and Ben wearing matching homemade outfits. The work is part of Lanfear’s Wardobe as Destiny (Paper) series, for which she reinvents fabric clothing in handmade paper, creating surrogate portraits of the garment’s former owner.
(Lana Meador, Label Text 2018)
All the women in Lanfear’s family were seamstresses, except for Lanfear herself who didn’t sew until later in life. Lanfear recalls that her mother would sew clothes for her and her brother, Ben. As a self-portrait, the artist recreated a garment from her childhood based on a photograph of her and Ben wearing matching homemade outfits. The work is part of Lanfear’s Wardobe as Destiny (Paper) series, for which she reinvents fabric clothing in handmade paper, creating surrogate portraits of the garment’s former owner.
(Lana Meador, Label Text 2018)
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