Quilt: Sailboats

Bed cover for child's bed
Child's quilt

Designed by: Dorothy Phillips Haagensen (American, 1914 – 1981)
Designed by: Julia Loomis Knudson (American, 1913 – 1990)
Designed for: Milwaukee Handicraft Project

American

1938

Medium/Technique Cotton plain weave, pieced and appliqued top, hand quilted

Dimensions Overall: 165.1 × 105.4 cm (65 × 41 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Adrienne Iselin Gilbert Memorial Fund, Alice J. Morse Fund, Textile Deaccession Fund, Textile Income Fund, Susan Cornelia Warren Fund, and Alice M. Bartlett Fund

Accession Number2019.535

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAmericas, Fashion and Textiles

ClassificationsTextiles

DescriptionCotton child's quilt with no batting, designed with multiple boarders in blue, orange, red and white with central field with eight sailboats with red pennants.

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)