Artwork Details
- Title
- The Plains
- Artist
- Date
- 1990
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 14 3⁄4 x 11 5⁄8 x 8 1⁄4 in. (37.5 x 29.5 x 21.0 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eleanor T. and Samuel J. Rosenfeld
- Mediums Description
- ash, bark, cotton, paint, string, and rice paper
- Classifications
- Keywords
- Landscape — plain
- Animal — buffalo
- Object Number
- 2002.8.11
Artwork Description
In the mid-1980s, Ed Rossbach began to create baskets made out of folded and stapled bark, often decorated with drawings or commercially produced illustrations applied with a heat-transfer process. The Plains is one of the most intensely colored examples from this group, which offer historical and pop-cultural images of Plains animals and Native Americans. Rossbach and his wife, Katherine Westphal, collected these as they traveled across the country, researching different textile traditions.