The American Folk Art Museum ~ NYC ~ Part 1

Saying goodbye to an old friend...

On Friday July 8th, the American

Folk Art Museum in New York

City closed its doors on its

main 53rd Street location.

I was there to view the paintings

and whimsical pieces of folk art,

but mainly, I was there to see the

quilts.  For those of you who

couldn't be there, here they are...

Center Star Quilt

1815 - 1825, glazed wool,

New England

Detail of Whole Cloth Quilt

Pots of Flowers Stenciled Spread

This type of spread was made

primarily in NY State and New

England.  Since the dyes were

not colorfast, they were not

laundered.

Detail of above.

Carpenter's Wheel

Pennsylvania, 1835 - 1845

Feathered Stars Quilt

1850 - 1860

This style of blue and white

quilt may have been influenced

by woven coverlets of the time.

English Flower Garden Quilt

Jennie Pingrey

Kansas, 1930 - 1935

Tree of Life

Cut-Out Chintz Quilt

Maine, 1925 - 1935

Grover Cleveland Quilt

New York State

Doll Quilts

Doll quilts were made by

children learning to sew.

Dresden Plate Quilt

United States, 1930 - 1940

Pieties Quilt

New York, 1848

Marion Cadman Hubbard

Aged 79

Embroidered Double Wedding

Ring Quilt

1930 - 1940

Detail of above.

Check back tomorrow for

Part 2 of the show.