Elizabeth Talford Scott
Hourglass
1983
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Elizabeth Talford Scott
Hourglass
1983
Physical Qualities
Cotton and synthetic ground, cotton and metallic embroidery threads, glass beads, plastic and metal objects, rocks, 60 1/2 × 45 1/2 in. (153.7 × 115.6 cm.)
Credit Line
Collectors Circle Fund for Art by African Americans, Baltimore Appliqué Society Fund, and purchased as the gift of the Joshua Johnson Council, and Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Greif, Jr., Lutherville, Maryland
Object Number
2012.225
Half-size "quilt" or hanging composed of Jacquard woven cotton/synthetic blended fabric ground woven in patterns of intersecting lines in navy blue, beige, and white with black central metallion ornamented with appliqued designs and applied embellishments. The center medallion is a black cotton printed in multicolored (purple, gold, rust) spirals. These have been outlined with multicolored embroidery threads (red, white, blue, yellow, green) in running stitches and embellished with rocks, buttons, plastic and metal objects, cloth figures, etc. in multiple colors of fabric and embroidery threads, including metallic. Two large motifs, each consisting of two inverted triangles, are placed at the top and bottom of the central medallion. Other appliqued shapes of triangles and or intersecting squares are situated around the ground just inside the border. These appliqued printed sections are embellished with embroidery either around the edges and/or throughout the printed portions in chain, buttonhole (blanket), wide chain, or running stitches in multiple colors of rose, gray, lt. green, dk. green, lt. blue, dark blue, red, orange, lavender, and teal blue. A 2" wide border consisting of a printed orange,navy blue, and white cotton featuring palmetto (?) trees is applied to the reverse and brought around to the front on all sides.
This quilt has no lining and no batting.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2012; Joyce Scott, Baltimore, by descent; the artist
Creators! Freeing Herself by Art
Hitching Their Dreams to Untamed Stars: Joyce J. Scott & Elizabeth Talford Scott
Eyewinkers, Tumbleturds, and Candlebugs: The Art of Elizabeth Talford Scott
George Ciscle, "Eyewinker, Tumbleturds, and Candlebugs: The Art of Elizabeth Talford Scott," Baltimore, Maryland: The Maryland Institute College of Art, p. 40, illus.
Cecilia Wichmann, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Hitching Their Dreams to Untamed Stars: Joyce J. Scott & Elizabeth Talford Scott," May 15 - December 1, 2019.
Inscribed: Written in purple marker on the bottom of the reverse: "ELIZABETH T. SCOTT"
Artist
Elizabeth Talford Scott
1915–2010
born Chester, SC 1916; died Baltimore, MD 2011
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