Tales My Father Told Me
Tales My Father Told Me
Rosita Johanson
1994
Materials
Dyed cotton fabric, dyed cotton thread, metallic thread, and wood
Size
11 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches
Racine Art Museum., Gift of Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
About the artwork.
A dressmaker by trade, Rosita Johanson applied her natural ability to work with thread and fabric to creating colorful embroidered narratives full of people, animals, and activity. Drawing on childhood memories, her imagination, and some topical political and social issues, she would piece together compositions using appliqué, machine embroidery, and hand-stitching. Tales My Father Told Me is one such fantastical scene featuring figures among the clouds engaged in a variety of activities.