A quilt or blanket documenting the history of the United States in squares with images and dates and the words Government of the People By the People And For the People Shall Not Perish From the Earth across the top and bottom borders. Title...
From the MOMA website (http://www.moma.org/) (11-2011): Bed / Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-2008) / 1955. Oil and pencil on pillow, quilt, and sheet on wood supports, 6' 3 1/4" x 31 1/2" x 8" (191.1 x 80 x 20.3 cm). Gift of Leo...
A woman, identified by Jean Thomas as Blanche Preston Jones but by Jones' ancestors as Priscilla (Pricy) Preston Burgess, great-aunt of Blanche Preston Jones, holds up a quilt bearing a repeating triangle pattern in front of a log cabin (probably...
Bud McCoy (holding banjo), his wife (holding quilt), and two sons (younger one also holding banjo) entertain Jean Thomas in front of the porch of their home. Title supplied by cataloger.
A woman sitting on a chair inside a cabin in Harlan County, Kentucky. Behind her are three beds with quilts, shelves on the wall with folded linens, and petticoats hanging from the ceiling.
Men; Boys; People with disabilities; Log cabins; Litters; Quilts
A child is carried past a log cabin by two men on a stretcher made of logs and a quilt, as a boy on crutches, wearing overalls and apparently missing his right leg, looks on. The children were likely selected for treatment at Stephenson orthopedic...
Men; Boys; People with disabilities; Log cabins; Litters; Quilts
A child is carried past a log cabin by two men on a stretcher made of logs and a quilt, as a boy on crutches, wearing overalls and apparently missing his right leg, looks on. The children were likely selected for treatment at Stephenson orthopedic...
Frankie McCoy displays a quilt celebrating the Allied victory of the Second World War. She stands in front of a log cabin (probably the Traipsin' Woman Cabin near the Mayo Trail, Boyd County, Kentucky).
An unidentified woman, left, holds a quilt created to honor the Allied victory in the Second World War as Jean Thomas, right, in coat and tam, watches from the steps of her Traipsin' Woman Cabin on Mayo Trail near Ashland, Kentucky. Title supplied...
Prints--Kentucky--Louisville--Exhibitions; Painting--Kentucky--Louisville--Exhibitions; Art quilts; Block designs; Screen process printing; Feminism and art
This thesis explores pattern juxtaposition using traditional American quilt block designs as the compositional basis for nine works pieced from screen printed paper. In the 1970s, the quilt was celebrated for its apparent connection to Modernist...
Nevada Sue (Vade) Preston (right), mother of Blanche Preston Jones, and Priscilla (Pricy) Preston Burgess (left), aunt of Nevada Sue and great aunt of Blanche, hold up a quilt bearing a repeating triangle pattern in front of a log cabin (probably...
Close-up of a quilt displayed, partially folded, on the ground outside. Part of a series of photographs documenting personal belongings of Jean Thomas taken by University of Louisville Curator of Photography Donald R. Anderson in August 1968. Title...
Men; Women; People; Religious facilities; Welfare facilities; Quilts; Beds
Address: 314 S. Hancock Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Beds and makeshift room dividers adorn a room for refugees at the Presbyterian Colored Mission. Two men and two women sit in the room. The men wear suits and have placed their hats on one of the...
