Helena Hernmarck in Montreal with her Little Richard tapestry, 1969.
Helena is pleased to be the featured in the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s podcast, The Object, in an episode titled The Missing Tapestries of Helena Hernmarck. In the episode, Helena describes a number of her corporate commissioned tapestries, and her effort to keep track of them after they come down from their original walls. These include Snake Labyrinth completed in 1967 for Expo 67, the Montreal World’s Fair; Launching of the QE2 completed for Cunard in 1969; Rainforest completed for Weyerhaeuser Corporation in 1971; her Blue Wash tapestries completed for Pitney Bowes in 1984; and Up & Down completed for PepsiCo in 1990. Some of these tapestries are still in corporate ownership, and others have found their way into museum collections. Others, despite Helena’s best efforts, are missing. With a catalogue raisonné of Helena’s tapestries underway, every effort is now being made to locate these missing works. Stay tuned for more information about the catalogue raisonné to come. In the meantime, we want to thank Tim Gihring of Mia for putting together this great episode.