Object Notes

Between 1895 and 1900, Ramón Casas completed a suite of paintings depicting the same female model in an intimate interior scene. She often wears a white dress with blue trim similar to the one found in Tired.

This drawing is a fully realized study for Paul Carpentier’s painting Self-portrait of the Artist and his Family in his Studio. Standing before his easel ho

Textiles are some of the finest and most specialized arts of the Andes, providing fundamental information regarding regional production, developed techniques, and adopted styles. This implement represents one of the principal tools used in textile production. Loom wands were used to separate and weight the longitudinal threads (warps) for greater ease in weaving the horizontal threads (wefts).

Textiles are some of the finest and most specialized arts of the Andes, providing fundamental information regarding regional production, developed techniques, and adopted styles. This wooden implement represents one of the principal tools used in textile manufacture. Loom swords served to separate warps and compact wefts in textile manufacture on a loom.

This “diamond waistband” tunic fragment reflects the high standardization of Inca tapestry textiles. It bears a zigzag embroidery at the base, as well as a striped selvedge, or edge, completion. Unlike the other tapestry-woven Inca uncu, however, the “diamond waistband” tunics regularly utilize cotton warps with camelid fiber wefts.

Painted textiles on the Andean coast date from at least the Early Horizon (900-200 BCE) and the discovery of preserved examples at Carhua (Karwa) on the Peruvian southern coast. Succeeding coastal populations continued to produce elaborate painted textiles, utilizing a range of plant dyes and mineral pigments on plain weave cotton fabric.