ENOCH WOOD PERRY | THE QUILTING PARTY
Auction Closed
January 25, 06:44 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
ENOCH WOOD PERRY
(1831 - 1915)
THE QUILTING PARTY
signed and dated lower left
oil on canvas
1876
24 ½ by 29 ½ in.
Salt Lake City, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, For Purpose and Pleasure: Quilting in America 1775-1900, June 25-September 17, 1995;
New York, The New York Historical Society, Home Sewn: Three Centuries of Stitching History, September 18, 2003 - April 18, 2004;
Santa Fe, New Mexico, The Museum of New Mexico and The Museum of International Folk Art, The Extraordinary in the Ordinary, 1998.
Sandi Fox, For Purpose and Pleasure: Quilting Together in Nineteenth-Century America, (Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press, 1995), illus. in color on cover and p. 11, no. 12;
Gloria Allen, A Maryland Album: Quiltmaking Traditions 1634-1934, (Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press, 1995).