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Four-Sided Tulip Design
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Four-Sided Tulip Design

1849

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Four-Sided Tulip Design

1849

Physical Qualities Cotton, 17 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. (44.5 x 47 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Olive C. Slater
Object Number 1946.44k
Cut-paper design of tulips and curling leaves; appliqué, layered appliqué; plain cotton (in red), printed cotton (in green w/ dots, yellow w/ black dots)
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1946; Ms. Olive C. Slater.
Exhibited at The Hecht Company, Baltimore, MD, Sept. 29-October 15, 1971 in connection with exhibit at BMA: Dena S. Katzenberg, Baltimore Museum of Art, The Great American Cover-Up: Counterpanes of the 18th and 19th Centuries," Oct. 24, 1971-Dec. 5, 1972. Exhibit catalog does not include any of these album quilt squares. [Receipt from BMA to Hecht Co., A 2100 dated September, 29 1971; Album quilt squares 1946.44 b, c, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, s, t.]

Exhibited at Hutzler's Department store, Baltimore, MD, November 12th and November 30th, 1971 in connection with exhibit at BMA: Dena S. Katzenberg, Baltimore Museum of Art, The Great American Cover-Up: Counterpanes of the 18th and 19th Centuries," Oct. 24, 1971-Dec. 5, 1972. [Receipt from BMA to Hutzler's Department Store, A 2128 dated November 12, 1971; Album quilt squares 1946.44 b, c, j, k, l, n, q, t.]

Dena S. Katzenberg, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Baltimore Album Quilts," 1980-1982, catalog does not include 1946.44i, Circulated to: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Nov. 18, 1980-Jan. 11, 1981; Metropolitan Museum, New York, June 30, 1981-Aug. 30, 1981; BMA Dec. 13, 1981-Feb. 7, 1982.
*this square may or may not have been shown in this exhibit.

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 catalog.

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