Melrose Plantation Quilt
Clementine Hunter
(American, 1886 or 1887–1988)
1960
Medium/TechniqueAppliqued and pieced cotton on paper
DimensionsHeight x length: 175.3 x 138.4 cm (69 x 54 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Gitter-Yelen Collection
Accession number2012.1339
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCollages
Collections
ProvenanceBy 2012, acquired by former Director of American Folk Art Museum Bob Bishop from Melrose Plantation, New York, NY; by 2012, sold by Bob Bishop to Kurt A. Gitter and Alice Yelen, New Orleans, LA; 2012, year-end gift of the Gitter-Yelen Collection to the MFA. (Accession date: February 27, 2013)
CopyrightReproduced with permission.Late 19th to early 20th century
about 1830
mid-19th century
about 1850
about 1830
1940s
about 1859