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Quilt: Sailboats

(American, 1914 – 1981)
(American, 1913 – 1990)
1938
Medium/TechniqueCotton plain weave, pieced and appliqued top, hand quilted
DimensionsOverall: 165.1 × 105.4 cm (65 × 41 1/2 in.)
Credit LineMary S. and Edward J. Holmes Fund
Accession number2019.535
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTextiles
InscriptionsStamped label on reverse: WPA Handicraft Project #8601 Milwaukee Wisconsin, Milwaukee County adn Milwaukee State Teachers College
ProvenanceBy 1943, acquired by a Pennsylvania college for its craft education program; 1970s, deaccessioned by this college. By 1979, acquired by an art professor, University of Tennessee in Pennsylvania; 1979, sold by this art professor to Merkiay Waldvogel, Knoxville, TN; 2019, sold by Merikay Waldvogel to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 24, 2019)