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Pat Gardner

Le Printemps

1996

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Pat Gardner

Le Printemps

1996

Physical Qualities Vintage cotton handkerchief, modern cottons, 28 x 27 1/2 in. (71.1 x 69.9 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of the Artist, Towson, Maryland
Object Number 2010.300
A small square quilt/wall hanging featuring a center block or medallion composed of a printed cotton handkerchief (designed by Yves St. Laurent) portraying an anthropomorphic representation of Spring. The handkerchief measures 14-3/4 x 15" and depicts the stylized head of a woman with long flowing curls, earrings, and a flower in her hair, blowing clover petals into the air. Abstract geometric shapes in yellow, lt. blue, green, yellow-green, and rose from the ground. The head is in pink with details in dark or royal blue, black, white, orange, yellow-green, and green. Three borders surround the central printed handkerchief block. The first (closest to the center) is approximately 7/8" wide and is composed of a marbled printed fabric of peach, orange, red-violet, and beige. The second is 3-5/8 or 3-3/4" wide and is pieced of blocks of irregular size and shape from multiple fabrics in various colors and prints. The fabrics used in this border can be described as follows: 1. Rose with straight red lines ending in crenellated lines as if to represent a fan or folded paper (same fabric as binding). 2. Gold with small gold figure. 3. Blue with splotchy light blue designs. 4. Green with darker green lines formed by dots appearing very much like stings of beads. 5. Beige with dotted white scrolls. 6. A fabric with a sawtooth edged white stripe between blue borders with black stripe on outer edge of both sides. 7. Rusty orange ground fabric with dark red rust and rose marks. 8. Light green with black boxes and scrolls and pin dots. 9. Lt. grey-blue with dark blue and "splatter" pattern. 10. Rose ground with small floral sprigs in blue, violet, and white. 11. Lt. blue print with splattered rose, dark blue, etc. 12. Green "grass" print with dark and light green and black 13. Marbled grey-blue ground with black print in unusual design (subject unidentifiable). The third (outermost) border is 1-1/2" to 1-5/8" wide and also composed of marbled printed material, probably the same fabric as the first border, but taken from more brownish sections over all. All borders have square corners. All construction, unless otherwise stated, is by machine. The reverse of the quilt is formed of a whole piece of printed fabric with an abstract design of white and yellow-gold birds flying over a fantastic landscape featuring blue, purple, green, and white tree-like designs on a ground of rose, pink, beige and red. The batting is polyester and is quilted with channel and outline quilting in the printed medallion, and with straight line, shell, outline, diagonal lines, and arched lines within the border areas, each small section of the middle border having its own quilting pattern. Quilt stitches are approximately 14-16 to the inch (counting both top and bottom stitches) and are sewn in cotton threads that generally match the background color of the fabrics, including lt. blue, green, pink, rose, blue, green, white, tan, and pink. The quilt is bound along the edges in a cotton print with rose ground and dark red lines in abstract shapes with crenellated edges - the same print as used in the first border. Binding is cut straight and attached along the straight of the grain by machine to the front, then brought to the back and stitched by hand. A patch of marbled fabric on the reverse at the lower right is signed in ink with the title, date, and maker's name. A 3-3/4" to 3-7/8" hanging sleeve of the same fabric as the back or lining is sewn along the top.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2010; Patricia Gardner, Sparks, MD
Anita Jones, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Jean and Allan Berman Textile Gallery,"Textiles: Recycled/Reimagined," March 10 - October 10, 2010.

Inscribed: Printed in black on obverse at the upper left of the center handkerchief in script letters: "Le Printemps" Printed in black on obverse at the lower right corner of the center handkerchief in script letters: "Yves Saint Laurent" Handwritten in ink on a patch of marbled fabric sewn to the lower right corner of the reverse: " 'Spring'/ 1997/ Pat Long Gardner"

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