Applique Bedspread

c. 1941

Arlene Perkins

Artist, American, active c. 1935

Charlotte Winter

Artist, American, active c. 1935

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor and gouache over graphite on paperboard

  • Credit Line

    Index of American Design

  • Dimensions

    overall: 50.3 x 57.8 cm (19 13/16 x 22 3/4 in.)
    Original IAD Object: 100" wide; 88" long

  • Accession

    1943.8.2589

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2002

  • Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003, no. 47, as Appliqué Quilt: Black-Family Album by Arlene Perkins.

Bibliography

1950

  • Christensen, Erwin O., The Index of American Design, New York: 1950, p. 117, no. 230.

2002

  • Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003: no. 47.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: A. Perkins & / C. WINTER

Wikidata ID

Q64536427

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