The Fabric Portrait

"Yes, Virginia" 1964
24" x 40" listed $350.oo

This early '64 example of Alma Lesch's signature
fabric portraits which she would continue
to construct through 1997.

Alma Wallace Lesch 1917-1999

"Uncle Bob"
Untitled
1966
hand dyed materials

Untitled 1967

sold to Barbara Hymson, N.Y.

1963

1963 Alma Lesch fiber work
owned by Mr. & Mrs. Phil Ward
Gainesville, FL

"Upon this Rock"

1969 "Upon this Rock"
owned by Mrs. Garvin Brown

1963

Untitled 1963
Stitchery on weaving
Hand dyed yarns
Size: 13" x 46"

sold in Atlanta

Biblical Themes

"He is Risen" 1968
gift to Franklin Page, Louisville, KY

Early Stitchery Work

Monostitch- (cretan)
Vegetable dyed yarns on cotton
size: 38" x 38"

sold in St Louis, MO undated photo

1966

"Family Portrait" 1966
Vegetable dyed stitchery

sold in New York by
America House Gallery

Jacob's Ladder

1967
Stitchery and applique on
Theatrical gauze

20" x 40" commissioned by &
owned by Franklin Page
Louisville, KY

"Lot's Wife" #2

1965 Fabric College Portrait
"Lot's Wife" #2
Buttons and stitchery on old
linsey-woolsey and crenolin.

Size: 24" x 38"
sold by Museum of Contemporary Crafts
owned by Mrs. David Flinn, Ithica, N.Y.

"The Nature of Materials"

significant fiber construction undated
from the "Bean" series and biblical series.

"The Nature of Materials"
Stitchery, double thickness background of linen
and burlap. Thread is drawn from linen at top
Colors: Naturals and white
Size: 22" x 47"
Yarns are wool, linen, silk, cotton.
Window shade pulls are covered with thread
discolored by rust

sold to Dorothy Culley (Colley, Calley sic)

1967

String Beans
marked owned by
J.B. Speed Art Museum

Bean Themed textile work

1968
owned by Cynthia Bringle
Penland, N.C.

Alma Lesch taught at Penland

1967 Alma Lesch

Variations on the Theme of Beans - Part II

sold by J. B. Speed Art Museum Gallery to
Charlotte Price, Louisville, KY

University of Georgia collection

1967 detail photo from "Black Beans" by artist Alma Lesch

"Black Beans"

1967 12.5" x 39"

owned by Wiley Sanderson
University of Georgia

(string Beans)

1967 photo
Variation on the theme of Beans- Part 1 (string Beans)
Stitchery on burlap
36" x 27"

sold in Cincinnati $100

1964 Alma Lesch

"The Window"
Stitchery on felt
18" x 36' Gift to:
Dr. and Mrs. Bruce Hamilton
Shepherdsville, KY

second "Mrs. Burns" 1964

compare to other Fabric Portrait same title

20" x 36" 1964
owned by Bob Burnside, N.Y.

destroyed by artist

"The Card Players" 22" x 60"

destroyed by Alma Lesch

Fabric Collage Portrait

"Nell" 58" x 23"
applique and stitchery
French lace gown, circa 1900
with fan, embroidered porte monnaie,
and string of buttons, on cotton
background
owned by Mrs. Daniel Peterson, Louisville KY

Nell Peterson, friend of Alma Lesch

"The Teenagers" 1966

in the collection of Flint Institute of Art, Flint, Michigan
purchased in 1966 by Mrs. Bishop, founder of Haystack Mountain
School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine
"The Teenagers"
Fabric Collage, stitchery and applique
with buttons, organza collar, lace hose, and cotton
pants legs

colors: black and white
size 24" x 40"

stitchery and applique on weaving

destroyed fiber art by the artist Alma Lesch mid '60s

Untitled

Vegetable dyed yarn, stitchery, hooking
and knotting on cotton. 22" x 48" 1967
sold to Barbara Hymson, New York 10028