This portrait of fiber artist Lenore Tawney with her open-warp weaving “Shadow River” is included in the new book “Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction.” The book, which is published by our friends at National Gallery of Art in Washington, with The University of Chicago Press, “foregrounds a robust if over-looked strand in art history’s modernist narratives by tracing how, when, and why abstract art intersected with woven textiles (and such pre-loom technologies as basketry, knotting, and netting) over the past century.”