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Friends of Captain George W. Russell and Mary Simon (née Heidenroder)

Baltimore Album Quilt

1851

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Friends of Captain George W. Russell and Mary Simon (née Heidenroder)

Makers: Friends of Captain George W. Russell
Designer: Mary Simon (née Heidenroder)

Baltimore Album Quilt

1851

Physical Qualities Cotton, velvet, silk; silk and/or cotton embroidery threads, ink, 89 3/4 x 88 1/4 in. (228.2 x 224.3 cm)

Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Edith Ferry Hooper, The Aaron Strauss and Lillie Strauss Foundation, and Mrs. Frank Kent, and Bequest of Alfred Duane Pell

Object Number 1971.36.1

The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase,1971; Edith Ferry Hooper

Dena S. Katzenberg, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Great American Cover-Up: Counterpanes of the 18th and 19th Centuries," Oct. 24, 1971-Dec. 5, 1972, cat. no. 32, p. 19, ill. p. 33.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Decorative Arts Accessions 1968-1973," Feb. 27-Apr. 15, 1973, no catalogue.

Dena S. Katzenberg, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Baltimore Album Quilts," Dec. 13, 1981-Feb. 7, 1982, cat. no. 23, p. 116, ill. p. 117, detail p. 29 and p. 51; circulated to: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Nov. 18, 1980-Jan. 11, 1981; Metropolitan Museum, New York, June 30, 1981-Aug. 30, 1981.

Anita Jones, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Baltimore Album Quilts: Appliquéd Artistry," Nov. 5, 2003-May 9, 2004, no catalogue.

Anita Jones, Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Jean and Allan Berman Textile Gallery, "Baltimore Album Quilts Revisited: A Matter of Style," 1st rotation, July 3rd, 2008-Jan. 27th, 2009, no catalogue.

Dena S. Katzenberg. "Baltimore Album Quilts". Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1981, page 117, plate 23.

Dolores A. Hinson. "American Graphic Quilt Designs." New York: Arco Publishing, Inc., 1983, p. 158-206, ill. p. 159, detail p. 160-205.

"Captain George W. Russell Album Quilt Patterns, 1852", Reproduction quilt patterns and CD created by the Baltimore Applique Soceity, published by The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2008, illus. on cover and in CD's. Exact scale replica with color charts, etc.

"BMA Today," Summer 2008, ill. p. 9.

"BMA Today," Fall 2008, ill. p. 26 (detail)

Elly Sienkiewicz, "Spoken Without a Word 30th Anniversary Revised Edition-A Baltimore Album Revival Commemorative," Washington DC: Turtle Hill Press, 2014, pp. 73.

Baltimore Museum of Art. "The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum". Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014.

Andre, Linda, and Jessica Skwire Routhier, eds. "The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating A Museum." Baltimore, Maryland: Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014. pg. 88-89

Inscribed: a1: "Edmonia Brashears" (inked), "Mary E. Joyce" (inked); a2: "Sophia Lauder" (inked), "Mary E. George" (inked); a3: "Zorah McCoy" (inked); a4: "Virginia Joyce" (inked), "Mary J. Atchison" (inked); b1: "Susan Brashears" (inked); b2/c2/b3/c3: "Agnes E. German" (inked), "Mary Bond" (inked); "Katie Bond" (inked), "Martha S. Winchester" (inked), "Presented to Capt. George W. Ruseell/By his Friends of Baltimore/August 23rd 1852" (inked, at center); b4: "Susan Brashears" (inked), "Susan Craft" (inked); c1: "Rachael A. Russell" (inked), "Rosalba Pawley" (inked); c4: "Elizabeth A. George" (inked); d1: "Mary A. Russell" (inked); d2: "Mary Ellen Russell" (inked), "Sarah Mann" (Inked); d3: "Carrie H. M. Ruff" (inked); d4: "Susan DeFord" (inked)