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UPCOMING EXHIBITION

The Denver Art Museum is set to feature around ten of Nancy Hemenway Barton’s tapestries as part of a 2025 exhibition. Jill D’Alessandro, Director and Curator of the Avenir Institute of Textile Art and Fashion at the Denver Art Museum, will lead a curator’s talk at the exhibition opening at 11am on Sunday Feb 16th, 2025.

 
 

Nancy Hemenway Barton had close to 40 solo exhibitions throughout the world. Never represented by an agent or gallery, she made friendships and professional contacts through extraordinary effort. Museum acquisition of her work began early in her career and continues to this day. Several of her significant pieces remain in private collections that will go to museums upon the collector’s passing. If you are a curator for a museum or public institution and would like to know more about exhibiting Nancy Hemenway Barton’s work, please contact Rick Barton at krlfdb@aol.com or by calling 609-216-4084.

 

Roserock, 1982

Salt Forest, 1990

 

Talus, 1981

"I" of IOU from Message, 1988

Epiphyte, 1977

Photos by Eric Stephenson. Courtesy of the Denver Art Museum.

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Elements I, 1978

Fall, 1979

Ascent, 1980

Bole, 1975

Nest, 1974

 

Aqua Lapis VIII, 1980

Anthropomorphic Deity, 1973

Salt Shadow, 1983

Lume II, 1985

Salt Wash, 1985

Rockbloom, 1980

Strata, 1981

Stone, Stone, 1975

Elements II, 1967-1981

Machu Pichu, 1968

Rock Lichen, 1975

Quahog, 1975

Flow of Inner Seeing II, 1981

Wave Length

Tipi Waterfall

Blazer, 1993

Declivity

Ceremonial Blade, 1973

Nest

Amulet II, 1972

Atticus Luna, 1973

Moon Web, 1997

Basalt, 1980

 

Exhibition Timeline

2025 (planned)

  • Denver Art Museum

2023

  • Confluence II included in Exhibit, Art and the Environment, Birmingham Museum of Art

2017

  • 2017 Retrospective, including exhibitions at:

    • University of New England Art Gallery, Portland, Maine

    • Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, Maine

    • Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA, Portland, Maine

    • Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine

    • Bates Olin Art Center, Lewiston, Maine

    • Central Maine Community College, Auburn, Maine

    • Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine

    • Maine Fiberarts Gallery, Topsham, Maine

    • Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts

1997

  • Exhibit, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts

1996

  • Exhibit, Nancy Hemenway Embroidered Textiles, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine

1995

  • Exhibit, Thaw, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine

1994

  • Exhibit, Boothbay Region Art Foundation, Boothbay Harbor, Maine

1991

  • Exhibit, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1988

  • Exhibit, New England Light, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California

1987

  • Exhibit, Tipi-Waterfall, part of Frontiers in Fiber: The Americans, U.S. Information Agency exhibit to seven countries in Asia

1986

  • Exhibit, Aqua Lapis, Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine, and Huntsville Museum, Huntsville, Alabama

1983

  • Exhibit, Salt Shadow, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine

  • Exhibit, Aqua Lapis, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois

1982

  • Exhibit, Berenice Abbott, Mildred Burrage, Nancy Hemenway, Dahlov Ipcar, Louise Nevelson, Joan Whitney Payson Gallery, Westbrook College, Portland, Maine

1979

  • Exhibit, Thirteen Tapestries by Nancy Hemenway, Wheaton College, Norton Massachusetts (with Amy Gray)

1977

  • Catalog, Textures of Our Earth: Bayetage Tapestries by Nancy Hemenway, 1972-1977, published by Nimrod Press, Boston

  • Exhibit, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia

  • Exhibit, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

  • Exhibit, The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.

1975

  • Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama

  • Special Tapestry Project for City of Boston Bicentennial 1975 Lecture Tour for U.S. Department of State of Zambia, Mozambique, South Africa, Rhodesia, and Namibia

  • Exhibit, Ancient Images of Mexico and the Andes, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama

  • Lecture tour, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

  • Lecture tour, England, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland

1974

  • Arts and Science Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 1974 McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas

  • Exhibit, Ancient Images of Mexico and the Andes, Oklahoma Science and Art Foundation,

    • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

    • San Antonio, Texas

    • Santa Fe, New Mexico

1972

  • Municipal Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico

  • Copley Society, Boston, Massachusetts

  • Exhibit, The Copley Society of Boston, Massachusetts

  • Exhibit, The Wingspread Gallery, Northeast Harbor, Maine

1971

  • Exhibit, Municipal Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico

  • Exhibit, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, Maine

  • Woodmere Art Gallery, Germantown, Pennsylvania

  • Neiman-Marcus, Dallas, Texas

1970

  • Film, Pan American Union, Washington,D.C.

  • Exhibit, Bola Gallery, Mexico City Mexico

  • Exhibit, The Art Wagon, Scottsdale, Arizona

1969-70

  • Exhibit, Creative Stitchery on Hand-Woven Materials from Bolivia by Nancy Hemenway, Pan American Union, Washington, D.C.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art, La Paz, Bolivia

  • Founded Embroidery School in Mexico

1967

  • Invented Bayetage Medium

1964

  • Exhibit, Wheaton College, Norton, Mass

1962

  • Exhibit, Paintings by Nancy Hemenway, Bronxville Public Library, New York

1960

  • Exhibit, Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, Maine

1959

  • Group exhibit, Uptown Gallery, New York City

1957

  • Exhibit, children's portraits, Casa Americana, Madrid

  • Group exhibit, Uptown Gallery, New York City