Towel
Anonymous
1850/1900
Medium
Embroidered floral borders
Dimensions
200.9 × 70 cm (79 × 27 1/2 in.
Classification
textile
Department
Textiles
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
79168
About the Artist
Anonymous
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...