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Strip Quilt

Eloise Lindsey

Strip Quilt

African-American, 1949

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Eloise Lindsey

Strip Quilt

African-American, 1949

Physical Qualities Cotton, silk or rayon, 86 x 74 1/2 in. (218.4 x 189.2 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Eddie Jordan, Baltimore
Object Number 2005.87
Strip quilt composed of narrow vertical strips of varied fabrics including a multitude of cottons, plain and printed flannels, corduroys, stripes, hot pinks, one fabric with printed characters from the comic strip "Steve Canyon" including "Copper Calhoun" and "Happy Easter," a green fabric with names of places such as "Hollywood" and "Eugene," as well as "Mt. Logan," fabrics with cartoon-like Egyptian figures, fake-ikats, checks, butas, butterflies, heraldic lions, and some avant-guard looking designs are included. Some fabrics may have rayon or silk involved. The back is a solid dark green piece of cotton that is brought around to the front as binding approximately 3/4"-1" wide on three sides and sewn with white thread. On the forth side the top and bottom are both folded in and seamed. The quilt is completely hand-pieced with white thread. The strips appear to have been pieced into irregular blocks and the blocks then pieced into wide strips which were joined to make the quilt top. The batting appears to be cotton, which is quite unevenly distributed. The bedcover is quilted in large irregular stitches ((2 or 3 stitches/inch top and bottom) with coarse dark brown/black thread (often 2 strands). There are numerous knots on the reverse. The quilting is generally speaking in vertical lines, widely and irregularly space which does not correspond to the seaming of the strips.
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2005; Dorothy Pritt Jordan Baltimore, MD by descent, c. 1980; Eloise Lindsey (c. 1894-1984), Jasper County, Mississippi.
Planned rotation, Arcade, September 2008. To be on view with furniture of Tom Miller. {Scheduled but NOT exhibited due to size.}

Anita Jones, Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, Jean and Allan Berman Textile Gallery,"Textiles: Recycled/Reimagined," (March 10 - October 10, 2010), no catalog.
[Linda Andre], "Staying Warm with Scraps of Cloth: Eloise Lindsey/African - American Strippy Quilt," Art to Go, February 2010, BMA website.

Inscribed: No inscriptions except in printed textiles included in the quilt top. See Description.

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Eloise Lindsey

American, 1894-1984
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