$693
Estimate: $300 - $500
Modern and Contemporary Craft: Selections from the Robert L. Pfannebecker Collection
Auction: November 18, 2022 11:00 AM EDT
Mixed content fabric and yarn
Stiched signature and date to reverse: "Helen Bitar 73"
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist
Property from the Robert L. Pfannebecker Collection
Literature
Lee Nordness, Objects: USA, The Viking Press, New York, p. 279 (for a disussion of the artist, pillow forms illustrated)
Artist Biography
Helen Bitar was born in Centralia, Washington in 1940. She earned a BA from the University of Washington in 1963. She was a longtime teacher at the University of Montana. Through the 1960s and 1970s, Bitar's work was widely exhibited and frequently feaured in Craft Horizons magazine.