Strawberry Wreath
1845
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Strawberry Wreath
1845
Physical Qualities
Cotton
Credit Line
Gift of Olive C. Slater
Object Number
1946.44i
A square Strawberry wreath; appliqué; plain cotton (in red), printed cotton (in green)
A quilt square of white cotton with appliquéd cut-paper motif of printed green appliquéd over printed yellow cotton visible through eight cuts surrounding a cut out center circle. A red circle is appliquéd in the center of the green cut out. Four red cotton oak leaves, each with a series of oval and circular cut outs with underlaying layers of printed yellow and dark blue cotton. This square features appliqué and reverse appliqué
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 Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD, November 2th – early December, 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 Enoch Pratt Free Library, A 2123 dated November 2, 1971; Album quilt squares 1946.44 c, i, g, h.] However it appears that 1946.44c was rotated to Hutzler’s Dept. Store by November 12, 1971.
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.
Exhibited at Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD, November 2th – early December, 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 Enoch Pratt Free Library, A 2123 dated November 2, 1971; Album quilt squares 1946.44 c, i, g, h.] However it appears that 1946.44c was rotated to Hutzler’s Dept. Store by November 12, 1971.
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.
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