Elizabeth Talford Scott

Plantation

1979

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Elizabeth Talford Scott

Plantation

Elizabeth Talford Scott

Plantation

1979

Physical Qualities Cotton ground; cotton, wool, and synthetic blend appliqué, cotton and silk embroidery threads, metal needle, cotton lining, 68 1/2 x 74 1/2 in. (174 x 189.2 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 2012.226

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

Eva Ungar Grudin, Stitching Memories: African-American Story Quilts, Massachusetts: Williams College Museum of Art, Travelled to the Baltimore Museum of Art, June 26 - August 26, 1990.

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

Anita Jones, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "New Arrivals: Art Quilts," December 16, 2015 - June 19, 2016.

Cecilia Wichmann, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Hitching Their Dreams to Untamed Stars: Joyce J. Scott & Elizabeth Talford Scott," May 15 - December 1, 2019.

Ciscle, George, "Eyewinker, Tumbleturds, and Candlebugs: The Art of Elizabeth Talford Scott," Baltimore, Maryland: The Maryland Institute College of Art, p.29 (illus.)

Grudin, Eva Ungar, Stitching Memories: African-American Story Quilts, Williams College Museum of Art, p. 32 Illus. on 31 or 33.

Godfrey, Mark and Katy Siegel, eds. Making Their Mark: Art by Women in the Shah Garg Collection. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2023. ill. p. 131.

Inscribed: Signed in purple and dark rose threads with inked periods at bottom left of center: "E.T.S." Cleaners woven tape sewn on lining at upper right on reverse near hanging velcro: "CHESAPEAKE/RUG & DRAPERY CLEANERS/Adjust-a-Drape [script]/FOLD FINISHING/ 10 [handwritten in ink or pencil] UNITS[;] 89 [handwritten in ink or pencil] LENGTHS [;] 80 [handwritten in ink or pencil] PLEATS// 3132 [handwritten in ink or pencil] INVOICE NO."