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  • Quilt depicting Melrose Plantation by Clementine Hunter

    Created by
    Hunter, Clementine, American, ca. 1886 - 1988
    Subject of
    Unidentified Woman or Women
    Melrose Plantation, American, founded 1832
    Date
    ca. 1965
    Medium
    cotton (fiber) , paper (fiber product) , thread and wool (hair)
    Dimensions
    H x W: 38 × 34 in. (96.5 × 86.4 cm)
    Description
    This quilt depicts several buildings on Melrose Plantation. In the center of the quilt is a large white house with a red chimney and black fabric used to indicate roof, windows, and doors. The house is rectangular with two round turrets at either end. In front of each turret is a human figure, a woman in an orange skirt on the right, and a woman in a green skirt on the left. Stylized trees and bushes flank the front and back of the building. The bottom half of the quilt depicts two structures, on the left a small white house with a black roof, one black window, one door, and a red chimney. On the right is a smaller structure with a large overhanging black roof and black support beams. The walls are white, with two narrow black and light blue doors. Each building is flanked by stylized trees. The artist's initials are sewn onto the lower right corner, with the "C" backwards.
    Place made
    Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
    Classification
    Visual Arts
    Type
    quilts
    Topic
    American South
    Folklife
    Rural life
    Women
    Credit Line
    Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the Collection of Sabra Brown Martin
    Object number
    2017.68.16
    Restrictions & Rights
    © Cane River Art Corporation
    Usage
    Usage conditions apply
    GUID
    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd574bb3f6f-9c3a-4bde-ba85-d8c4b0045bc0
  • Freedom Quilt

    Created by
    Telfair, Jessie Bell Williams, American, 1913 - 1986
    Date
    ca. 1975
    On View
    Culture/Fourth Floor, 4 050
    Exhibition
    Cultural Expressions
    Medium
    cotton
    Dimensions
    H x W: 73 × 87 in. (185.4 × 221 cm)
    Caption
    Quilter Jessie Telfair was inspired to make this quilt in the mid-1970’s as an expression and memorialization of her experiences during the Civil Rights Movement. In the 1960s, Telfair was encouraged by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s efforts to register African American voters in Southwest Georgia. Telfair decided to register to vote. When her employers learned of her actions, they fired her from her job as a cafeteria worker at an elementary school in her small community of Parrott, Georgia. The quilt is an affirmation of her personal freedom as well as a statement about the freedoms guaranteed to all American citizens. Telfair later made two more quilts of nearly identical design, one is in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum in New York and the other is at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.
    Description
    A pieced and appliqued cotton quilt designed and quilted by Jessie Telfair. The quilt consists of bold blue block letters on red squares, arranged to spell the word [FREEDOM] along a horizontal axis, repeated in six rows. Smaller white square blocks separate the red squares. The backing is white.
    Place made
    Parrott, Terrell County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
    Classification
    Textiles-Quilts
    Type
    quilts
    Topic
    American South
    Art
    Civil rights
    Craftsmanship
    Folklife
    Freedom
    Resistance
    Rural life
    Suffrage
    Textile design
    Credit Line
    Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Virginia Dwan
    Object number
    2017.40
    Restrictions & Rights
    No Known Copyright Restrictions
    Usage
    Not determined
    GUID
    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd54b3f9bd5-b5c9-47fe-8a65-a6b729cf42cd
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    Quilted petticoat

    Created by
    Unidentified
    Date
    1830s-1840s; repurposed 1890s
    On View
    Concourse 3, C3 053
    Exhibition
    Slavery and Freedom
    Medium
    cotton fabric and cotton batting
    Dimensions
    H x W x D (On form): 37 × 24 × 20 in. (94 × 61 × 50.8 cm)
    Description
    This quilted petticoat may have been made from a repurposed wholecloth bedcover or refashioned from a once larger skirt. The front of the textile is faced with a small-scale printed floral vine design in white, yellow, purple, and red blossoms with green leaves on a light brown ground. The back of the textile is faced with an orange striped cotton. A layer of cotton batting was quilted between the front and back facing fabrics. It was hand quilted with off-white cotton thread in an offset grid pattern with a leafy vine border design. The floral printed fabric was turned and hand stitched to the back fabric as binding. The fabrics and quilted motifs indicate it was probably made in the 1830s or 1840s. The fabric may have been imported from France.
    The cut textile is turned under and the edges left raw at the interior waistline of the petticoat and the cotton batting can be seen along these raw edges. A small piece of printed cotton with a small-scale repeating design of purple flowers on a yellow ground is stitched at the interior proper left front waist. A long length of off-white cotton twill tape is attached around the back waist to hold gathers in the petticoat. The twill tape remains loose on the front so that the front of the petticoat has a flat silhouette. The petticoat is closed by tying these loose lengths of twill tape at the front waist.The hem of the petticoat is the original binding of the bedcover and the quilted vine border of the bedcover is turned horizontal around the bottom of the petticoat. The textile was probably repurposed into its current form as a petticoat between the 1870s and 1890s due to the flat front and gathered back waist.
    Place used
    United States, North and Central America
    Classification
    Slavery and Freedom Objects
    Clothing-Historical
    Type
    quilts
    petticoats
    Topic
    Clothing and dress
    Reconstruction, U.S. History, 1865-1877
    Slavery
    U.S. History, 1865-1921
    U.S. History, Civil War, 1861-1865
    Credit Line
    Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Aaron and Maureen Robinson and Family
    Object number
    2014.180.1
    Restrictions & Rights
    No Known Copyright Restrictions
    Usage
    CC0
    GUID
    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5850e4876-bcd8-4589-83b3-788a7cc85615
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