In 1955 the notable American politician and art collector, Nelson A. Rockefeller, commissioned a tapestry after Pablo Picasso’s canonical 1937 painting, Guernica. Not only did the Guernica tapestry catalyze Rockefeller’s significant collection of hand-woven tapestries reproducing Picasso paintings, but the tapestry also went on to circulate as a substitute for Picasso’s famous painting a…