Eichebuckel Oak Hummock

Art

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DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Eichebuckel Oak Hummock

Entry/Object ID

2016.139

Description

olive green fabric patched together in a quilt

Artwork Details

Medium

unique army blankets

Context

Eichebuckel (oak hummock) (2002), a floor piece made of a crudely stitched patchwork of green wool army blanket remnants, employs an industrially produced material that retains a sense of its natural origins to evoke the terrain of a human-altered yet still bucolic landscape. The scale of each piece in the series was determined in relation to the size of a particular species of tree (in the case an oak), while each section is based on the average size of that species’ leaf. The orientation of each section and the direction of the stitching were determined by chance.

Acquisition

Accession

2016.139-143

Source or Donor

Barbara Ruben

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Collection of DePaul Art Museum, Gift of Barbara and Tom Ruben

Made/Created

Artist

Mirra, Helen

Date made

2002

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Textile art, Military uniforms, Landscapes (Representations)

Dimensions

Dimension Description

3D

Width

25-1/2 in

Depth

3-1/8 in

Length

23-1/2 in