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This is part 7 of a 21-part post on American Folk Art:
Quilts and textiles:
During the C18th and C19th women of all social levels made quilts and coverlets. Primarily meant to be utilitarian, they were often designed to please the eye as well, and were sometimes imbued with significance far beyond being simple bed covers.
They were often wedding gifts, or made by brides-to-be to take to their future marital home. They were also made to celebrate the birth of a child, and even sometimes in remembrance of the dead.
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| 1790-1810 Hewson-Centre Quilt with Multiple Borders cotton and possibly linen 217.2 x 193 cm American Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| 1803c Coverlet made for Phebe Warner (probably) by sarah Furman Warner Williams (b 1764) 262.3 x 229.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City |
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| 1825-45 Appliquéd and Embroidered Pictorial Bedcover wool, silk, cotton, beads with silk and cotton embroidery 231.1 x 204.5 cm American Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| 1825-49 Block-Work Stencilled Spread paint on cotton 223.5 x 193.6 cm American Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| 1842 Quilt Top by "MTD" cotton 251.5 x 238.7 cm American Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| 1843 Album Quilt cotton and ink with cotton embroidery 236.8 x 241.9 cm American Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| 1845-50 Baltimore-Style Album Quilt Top cotton with wool embroidery 213.4 x 208.3 cm American Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| Detail of the 1845-50 Baltimore-Style Album Quilt Top (above) |
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| Detail of the 1845-50 Baltimore-Style Album Quilt Top (above) |
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| 1848 Quilt by Elsey A. Halstead (1830-1850), Middletown, New York Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| 1850-60 Feathered Stars Quilt by "ECB" cotton 242.6 x 194.3 cm American Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| 1850-1880 Soldier's Quilt: Square within a Square wool 217.2 x 167.6 cm Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| 1852 Dunn Album Quilt cotton and ink with cotton embroidery 254 x 252.1 cm American Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| 1854-1890 Soldier’s Quilt wool-melton 170.2 x 168.9 cm American Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| 1858-63 Bird of Paradise Quilt cotton, wool, and silk with ink and silk embroidery 214.6 x 176.8 cm Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| 1861 Cross River Album Quilt cotton and silk with wool embroidery 231.1 x 190.5 cm American Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| 1866 Abraham Lincoln Flag Quilt by Lucy Frost cotton with cotton appliqué and embroidery 154.9 x 190.5 cm American Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| 1870-80 Floral Medallion Quilt cotton 218.4 x 177.8 cm American Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| 1875-95 "Sacret Bibel" Quilt Top cotton, silk, wool, and ink, with cotton embroidery 224.8 x 182.9 cm American Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| 1876 Centennial Quilt cotton with cotton embroidery 209.6 x 189.3 cm American Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| 1880-1910 Circle in Star Quilt pierced cotton 198.1 x 193 cm American Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| 1884-90 Grover Cleveland Quilt cotton 217.2 x 217.2 cm American Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| 1885 Masonic Appliqué Quilt cotton Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| 1885-90 Cleveland-Hendricks Crazy Quilt lithographed silk ribbons, silk and wool with cotton fringe and silk and metallic embroidery 190.5 x 195.6 cm American Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| 1885-95 Crazy Quilt by "S.H.'" silk, ink, paint and cotton with silk embroidery 190.5 x 188 cm American Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| 1890-1910 Pine Tree Quilt pierced cotton 172.7 x 223.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1890-1910 Vortex Quilt pierced and appliquéd cotton 203.2 x 208.3 cm Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| c1900s "Close Finish" hooked rug wool and burlap with cotton binding 82.5 x 116.8 cm American Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| 1907c Quilt by Carl Klewicke (1835-1913) silk, faille, taffeta and satin 183.1 x 152.4 cm Folk Art Museum, New York City |
Eunice Griswold Holcombe Pinney (1770-1849)
Eunice Pinney is the earliest known American primitive
watercolourist. She was born into a large, wealthy family in Simsbury,
Connecticut. Painting fruit and flower still lifes, landscapes, and scenes
from history was a popular pastime among refined ladies in nineteenth-century
America.
Self-educated before art instruction books
became popular, Pinney was free to invent her own style. The variety of her
subjects is unusual; she painted memorials and literary scenes, portraits and
landscapes. English prints inspired some of her works, such as "The Cotters Saturday Night", which illustrates a poem by
eighteenth-century Scottish poet Robert Burns.
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| 1810 The Cotters Saturday Night pen and watercolour 30.7 x 37.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
"Lolotte et Werther" illustrates an episode in the life of
the hero of Goethe's enormously popular romantic novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther" (1774).
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| 1810 Lolotte and Werther watercolour 37.7 x 29.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
Pinney seems to have started painting
around 1809, when she was thirty-nine. Some scholars have noted that her
maturity might have allowed her to be bold and confident in her work. Most of
her paintings were done in Simsbury or Windsor, Connecticut, where she settled
in 1797, marrying Butler Pinney after her first husband drowned. Of her
fifty-four recorded works, the majority were painted between 1809 and 1826.
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| 1800-10 Three Women Standing by a Funerary Monument watercolour and graphite on paper 25.4 x 20.6 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1810 (attributed to) Untitled watercolour 22.2 x 20.9 cm |
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| 1810 Two Women watercolour on paper 25.4 x 30.5 cm |
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| 1813 "In Memory of Eunice Pinney" watercolour and pricking on paper 41.9 x 48.9 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1815c (attributed to) Lady Standing in a Landscape watercolour on paper 28.5 x 22.9 cm |
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| 1815c Mother and Child pen and black ink and watercolour on wove paper 25.2 x 30.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1820c Family Group at Piano watercolour on paper 35.5 x 41 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1845c Portrait of Two Girls watercolour and pen and ink on paper |
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| n.d. Children Playing watercolour 25.4 x 30.5 cm |
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| n.d. Collingwood and Northesk: The Ever to be Lamented Lord Nelson watercolour on paper 30.5 x 36.8 cm |
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| n.d. Family Register of Butler Pinney pen and watercolour on paper 38.9 x 26.7 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| n.d. Hope, Faith, Peace and Charity: Family Register of the Butler Family watercolour 28.7 x 22.4 cm |
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| n.d. Mother and Daughter pen and brown ink and watercolour over graphite on laid paper 21.7 x 18.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| n.d. Shot by Cupid's Arrow watercolour |
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| n.d. Young Couple in a Landscape watercolour on paper 19.4 x 15.7 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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