The World Trade Center Tapestry

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The World Trade Center Tapestry
Catalan: Gran Tapís del World Trade Center

Artist	Joan Miró, Josep Royo
Year	1974
Medium	Wool and hemp
Dimensions	6.1 m × 11 m (20 ft × 35 ft)
Condition	destroyed in 2001

The World Trade Center Tapestry was a large tapestry by Joan Miró and Josep Royo. It was displayed in the lobby of 2 World Trade Center (the South Tower) in New York City from 1974 until it was destroyed in 2001 by the collapse of the World Trade Center.

History and description

Saul Wenegrat, former director of the art program for the Port Authority of New York, had suggested to Miró that he could make a tapestry for the World Trade Center, but the artist declined as he would only make the work with his own hands but had no experience of making a tapestry. However, after his daughter recovered from an accident in Spain, Miró agreed to make a tapestry for the hospital that had treated her as a token of his gratitude. Having learned the technique from tapestry maker Josep Royo, Miró made several other tapestries with Royo, including one for the World Trade Center, Woman for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and one for the Fundació Joan Miró.

The work was an abstract design, with bright blocks of colour, red, green, blue and yellow, with black elements and a light brown background. Made of wool and hemp, it measured 20 × 35 feet (6.1 × 10.7 m) and weighed 4 tons. It was completed in 1973 and displayed at a retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris before being installed in New York City in 1974.

The tapestry was totally destroyed during the September 11 attacks in 2001.

References

Tozzoli, Guy F. (May 25, 1981). "Taking Care Of the Trade Center's Miro Tapestry". The New York Times. p. A14.

External links

World Trade Center Tapestry, Joan Miró
Woman 1977, National Gallery of Art
Tapestry of the Foundation, Joan Miró, 1979, Fundació Joan Miró
Public Art at the World Trade Center, Saul Wenegrat, Proceedings of an IFAR Symposium on February 28, 2002
The World Trade Center Tapestry of Joan Miró (1997)

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Paintings	Portrait of Vincent Nubiola (1917) The Farm (1921–1922) The Tilled Field (1923–1924) The Harlequin's Carnival (1924–1925) The Birth of the World (1925) Dog Barking at the Moon (1926) Painting (Blue Star) (1927) Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement (1935) Still Life with Old Shoe (1937) Ciphers and Constellations, in Love with a Woman (1941) Women and Birds (1963) Woman, Bird, Star (Homage to Pablo Picasso) (1966–1973) May 1968 (1968–1973) Hands Flying off Toward the Constellations (1974) The Hope of a Condemned Man (1974)
Series	Head of a Catalan Peasant (1924–1925) Dutch Interiors (1928) Paintings on Masonite (1936) Metamorphosis (1935–1936) Constellations (1939–1941) Barcelona Series (1939–1944) Triptych Bleu I, II, III (1961) The Navigator's Hope (1968–1973)
Drawings	Naked Woman Climbing a Staircase (1937)
Sculpture	Lunar Bird (1944–1967) Solar Bird (1966) The Caress of a Bird (1967) His Majesty the King (1974) Her Majesty the Queen (1974) His Highness the Prince (1974) Personnage Gothique, Oiseau-Eclair (1974–1977) Miró's Chicago (1981) Labyrinth (1961–1981) Dona i Ocell (1983)
Ceramics and textiles	Wall of the Sun and Wall of the Moon (1955–1958) The World Trade Center Tapestry (1974) Miró Wall (1979) Tapestry of the Fundació (1979)
Murals	The Reaper (1938) Personnages Oiseaux (1972–1978)
Family and colleagues	María Dolores Miró (daughter) Joan Prats Josep Llorens i Artigas Josep Lluís Sert Joaquim Gomis Joan Gardy Artigas Josep Royo
Museums	Fundació Joan Miró Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Mallorca
Related	Fondation Maeght Miró otro Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape exhibition Mont-roig del Camp 4329 Miró

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Tapestries	Adoration of the Magi Apocalypse Tapestry Amnesty-Sís-Pinton Tapestries Armada tapestries Battle of Pavia tapestries Bayeux Tapestry Bayeux Tapestry tituli Hunts of Maximilian Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph Cloth of St Gereon The Death of Polydorus Devonshire Hunting Tapestries Game of Thrones Tapestry Great Tapestry of Scotland Great Tapestry of Scotland: People's Panel Grödinge tapestry Gunthertuch Hestia Tapestry The History of Constantine Holy Grail tapestries The Unicorn Tapestries Hunting of Birds with a Hawk and a Bow Jagiellonian tapestries The Justice of Trajan and Herkinbald Lady and the Unicorn New World Tapestry Oseberg tapestry fragments Överhogdal tapestries Pastoral Amusements Pastrana Tapestries Raphael Cartoons Ros Tapestry Project Ryijy Sampul tapestry Scottish Diaspora Tapestry Scottish royal tapestry collection Sheldon tapestries Skog tapestry Story of Abraham The Triumph of Fame Valois Tapestries Walsall Silver Thread Tapestries The World Trade Center Tapestry
Styles	Kalaga Kesi Millefleur
Studios	Aubusson Beauvais Brussels Gobelins Moravská Gobelínová Manufaktura Morris & Co. Mortlake Pannemaeker family Royal Tapestry Factory William Baumgarten & Co
Weavers and designers	Pieter van Aelst III Anni Albers Francis Crane John Henry Dearle Dermoyen family Givi Kandareli Ida Kerkovius Lefèvre family William Morris Margaretha Reichardt Gunta Stölzl Judocus de Vos
Tapestry artists	Pieter Coecke van Aelst François Boucher Marc Chagall Francis Cleyn John Coburn Michiel Coxie Éva Farkas Petronėlė Gerlikienė Francisco Goya Blind Man's Bluff The Parasol list of tapestry cartoons Muriel Nezhnie Helfman Else Marie Jakobsen Jacob Jordaens Hans Knieper Nancy Kozikowski Jean Lurçat Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer Bernard van Orley François Quesnel Raffaello Sanzio (Raphael)
Related	Byzantine silk Embroidery Franses Tapestry Archive International Gothic Kilim Navajo weaving Needlepoint Weaving

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