Elizabeth Talford Scott

Hourglass

1984

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Elizabeth Talford Scott

Hourglass

1984

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

The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2012; Joyce Scott, Baltimore, by descent; the artist

George Ciscle, "Eyewinker, Tumbleturds, and Candlebugs: The Art of Elizabeth Talford Scott," The Maryland Institute College of Art, January 15-March 1, 1998.

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"