Time to think about fall and winter quilt shows
featuring antique quilts. Here's a list to help you plan your travels:
Colorado, Golden
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum. Twice as Nice: Two-Color Quilts from the Collection.
Through January 25, 2014.
Kansas, Logan
Dane G. Hansen Museum, Perfecting the Past: Colonial Revival Quilts, a traveling exhibit from the International Quilt Study Center and Museum.
Through December 1, 2013
Through December 1, 2013
Massachusetts, Lowell
New England Quilt Museum:
Roots of Modern Quilting: A Fresh Look at Old Quilts. Through December 28, 2013.
Roots of Modern Quilting: A Fresh Look at Old Quilts. Through December 28, 2013.
Quilt by Ernest Haight
Nebraska, Lincoln
International Quilt Study Center and Quilt Museum:
Posing With Patchwork Quilts: Quilts in Photographs 1855-1955. Through December 1, 2013.
Posing With Patchwork Quilts: Quilts in Photographs 1855-1955. Through December 1, 2013.
The Engineer Who Could: Ernest Haight’s Half Century of Quiltmaking. Through March 2, 2014.
The Whole Story: Quilting Patterns, Using a technique she developed for digitally tracing quilting lines on high-resolution images, guest exhibition curator Linda Baumgarten, curator of textiles and costumes at Colonial Williamsburg, brings to the forefront the often taken for granted quilting stitch. By highlighting quilting designs, Baumgarten reveals another aspect of the quilt’s message, one that is less immediately visible than the patchwork, applique, and printed patterns we often notice first on historic quilts. Through June 1, 2014.
Expanding the Collection: Recent Acquisitions
Opening December 6, 2013
New Mexico, Las Cruces
New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum. Stitches in Time: Quilts from the Museum’s Collection. 32 quilts from 1830 to 1970. Through March 23, 2014.
New York, Manhattan
A view of trade as a
history of design, exploring interrelationship of textiles, commerce, and
taste from the Age of Discovery to the 19th century. Not a quilt show but of interest to fans of antique textiles.
Through January 5, 2014
The catalog is available in October:
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/bookprinter.asp?isbn=9780300196986
South Carolina, Charleston
The Charleston Museum. Quintessential Quilts.
"The
Museum’s finest examples of quilting from the late 18th century through the 20th century."
Through March 30, 2014.
Quilt Dated 1845 from the Charleston Museum collection
The Charleston Museum also presents
Positively Paisley through January 5, 2014.
Feathered Star with redwork
Texas, LaGrange
Texas Quilt Museum. My Stars! A Constellation of Star Quilts 1845-1993, curated by Sandra Sider.
Through December 22, 2013.
http://www.texasquiltmuseum.org/index.html
Vermont, Shelburne
Shelburne Museum. Color, Pattern, Whimsy, Scale: The Best of
Shelburne Museum. Includes a few quilts and textiles.
Through December 31, 2013
http://shelburnemuseum.org/exhibitions
Harriet Boswell Alexander Caperton
Western Virginia
Virginia, Richmond
Virginia Historical Society. The Great Western Virginia
Cover-Up: Historic Quilts & Bedcovers. Through January 5, 2014
Over thirty bedcovers made in western Virginia between 1800
and 1950 in this second venue of an exhibit from the Blue Ridge Institute.
Virginia, Williamsburg
Colonial Williamsburg. Foster and Muriel McCarl Gallery. Quilts in the Baltimore Manner.
A dozen quilts 1845 to 1855. Curated by Linda Baumgarten and Kim Ivey.
Through May 11, 2014.A dozen quilts 1845 to 1855. Curated by Linda Baumgarten and Kim Ivey.
http://www.history.org/history/museums/abby_art_current.cfm
DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum. Threads of Feeling: Poignant Stories.
This exhibit from London's Foundling Hospital features scraps of mid-18th century fabrics left as tokens with abandoned babies. Though not a quilt exhibit, the fabrics and the stories are fasincating. Through May 26, 2014.
http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/do/art-museums/wallace-museum/threads-of-feeling/
DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum. Threads of Feeling: Poignant Stories.
This exhibit from London's Foundling Hospital features scraps of mid-18th century fabrics left as tokens with abandoned babies. Though not a quilt exhibit, the fabrics and the stories are fasincating. Through May 26, 2014.
http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/do/art-museums/wallace-museum/threads-of-feeling/
From the Collection of the Brooklyn Museum
Washington D.C.
National Museum
of Women in the Arts. “Workt by Hand”: Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts.
35 quilts from
the 18th to the 20th-century from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection.
December 20 -
April 27, 2014.
Wisconsin, Cedarburg
Wisconsin Quilt Museum. Sheared Delights Vintage Wool Crazy
Quilts from the Collection
Through January 11, 2014
Lots of great shows, I need to get up to Mass and check out the museum there, would be a fun day trip now that it is getting cooler.
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