• Artist Anne Nordhaus-Bike's mixed media piece Red Coat Remembered, closeup angled view
  • Red and white mixed media piece Red Coat Remembered, red buttons and thread, white grid, closeup
  • Red and white mixed media piece Red Coat Remembered, detail view from top
  • Creating mixed media piece Red Coat Remembered-Anne Nordhaus-Bike's studio with red thread, buttons
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Anne Nordhaus-Bike Art

Red Coat Remembered

Red Coat Remembered

$1,600.00 USD
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Memories of "clothes gone by" - those beloved things you once wore, and wore out, and had to throw out.

Original: Original mixed media artwork

Signature: Signed by the artist on back of square stretched canvas

Size: 7.25 inches wide by 7.25 inches high by 5.25 inches deep

Ready to display: Hanging wire on back of square stretched canvas means you can display this artwork immediately, in your home or office

Certified: All original artwork comes with a certificate of authenticity

Shipping: Original artwork ships free in continental U.S.!

A Word From Anne

Did you ever have a piece of clothing you just LOVED? One you stepped out in so often you wore it out?

Maybe you kept it, even when it was tattered and past repair...impossible to wear anymore. And if you ended up throwing it out later on, maybe you felt that pang inside and it was hard to let it go.

That happened to me with a coat. She was thrift store chic in my college days and had moth holes in the hem even when she came to me. Graceful lines, like an artist's smock, reaching down to my ankles. I knew she was for me, making me feel like the artist I knew I truly was.

Later I saw, through others' eyes: those moth holes in the hem, not enough buttons, not warm enough for Chicago winters. Wind whistled up those gorgeous sleeves, yet I loved her still. First job after college, so cold, buying a new coat. I gave her away, more than 30 years ago. I still think of her...and miss her.

Bring back the memory of your own cherished, long gone clothing with this unique and colorful sculpture. A flash of where the red coat's front parts met graces the canvas; in front, a see-through panel that acts like a scrim, letting you glimpse the coat as if through the haze of memory.

Created With Mixed Media

  • Acrylic paint on stretched canvas
  • Canvas covered plastic armature atop canvas
  • White needlepoint canvas "memory scrim" with sewn and glued buttons, crochet thread
  • On back, found nails, hanging wire, and screw eyes

More Details: Provenance

Red Coat Remembered

  • Created 2018
  • Exhibited in Small Works Members Show, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Dec. 7 - 16, 2018

Media Coverage

  • "Small Works Members Show Group Exhibition," Art Facts, December 2018
  • "Small Works Members Show 2019," Chicago Gallery News, December 2018
  • "Small Works Members Show 2018," MutualArt, December 2018
  • "Small Works Members Show: Closing Reception," The Visualist, December 2018
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