Star of Lemoyne Quilt
It is not difficult to appreciate why this quilt was a Finalist in the Chicago Evening American Quilt Contest of 1930, about one hundred years’ after it was made- proclaimed on a label still attached to its reverse. The quilt’s splendid palette is characterized by the predominant use of a single printed cotton. Its lush red, green and brown colors and otherworldly coral and seaweed-like motifs embody the technical adventurousness of textile printing in the 1820s, combining multiple stages of both block- and superimposed machine-printing. Though this cotton can be attributed to printers working in the United States, the quilt’s reverse is a wholecloth of cotton printed in Britain in the 1820s, with a high quality block printed design featuring peacocks, based on the work of the seventeenth-century artist, Francis Barlow.
Artwork Details
- Title: Star of Lemoyne Quilt
- Date: ca. 1835–50
- Culture: English or American
- Medium: Cotton: pieced
- Dimensions: 86 1/2 in. × 9 ft. 2 1/2 in. (219.7 × 280.7 cm)
- Classification: Textiles-Embroidered
- Credit Line: Gift of Karen B. Cohen, in honor of Rochelle C. Rosenberg, 2022
- Object Number: 2022.147.3
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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