Fabric, decorative objects, and personal belongings / Panels measuring 3′ by 6′ assembled into larger
12′ by 12′ blocks / Quilt is housed at NAMES Project Foundation headquarters, Atlanta, Georgia
Previous October 11 posts:
Autumn~ October 11
Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/11~
72”x36” / Cotton fabrics, stenciled, photo silk-screened. Hand and machine pieced, hand appliquéd, hand quilted
National September 11 Memorial Museum, NYC
East Village resident Drunell Levinson…announced the September 11 Quilts Memorial project on a website she created especially for that purpose. Calling on volunteers to submit 3’x 6’ or 3’x 3’ quilt panels, she left the choice of materials and the interpretation to the individual artists…By September 10, 2002, the project consisted of 94 unique quilts accompanied by artists’ statements, photographs, memorabilia, emails, and a dedicated website. ~https://www.911memorial.org/tribute/the-september-11-quilt-project
Photographs are from “September 11 Quilts”
See more at https://www.september11quilts.org/index.html
Previous September 11 posts:
Hispanic Artists~September 11
“Capturing a City’s Emotion in the Days After 9/11”
September 11: 9/11
Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/11~
Possibly 19th century / Wood, cotton, fabric, and glass beads /
20 1/16”x14 15/16”x16 15/16” / Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
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Basset Standing with Head Turned to the Right by Antoine-Louis Baryec.1841 / Bronze with dark brown over warm red-brown patina / 6 1/4”x12 1/4”x4 1/4” /
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
4th–6th century / Wool and linen / 12 13/16”x24 5/16” / The Met
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Wall Panel with a Charging Boar / Sasanian period, Ctesiphon, Mesopotamiac.6th century A.D. / Stucco / 11 5/8”x15” / The Met
Autumn from the series “The Four Seasons” by David Teniers the Youngerc.1644 / Oil on copper / 8 3/4”x6 2/5” / National Gallery, London
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Late 18th century / Painted and printed gold & silver leaf and opaque watercolor on indigo-dyed cotton
97 5/8”x103 1/8” / Metropolitan Museum of Art
Faith Ringgold (Born 1930), African-American visual artist, author, illustrator, and social activist
https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/faith-ringgold
Tar Beach 2 / 1990 / Multicolored screenprint on silk, printed cotton, synthetic moire / 66”x67”
Sam Gilliam (Born 1933), Innovative African-American painter, part of the Washington Color School
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/sam-gilliam-1811
10/27/69 / 1969 / Synthetic polymer paint on canvas / 140”x185”x16″
Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828-1901), African-American painter of landscapes and pastoral subjects
https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/bannister.php
Scene along the Connecticut River, Westmoreland / c.1870 / Oil on canvas / 30”x20”
Harriet Powers (1837-1910), African-American folk artist and quilt maker
https://www.civilwarwomenblog.com/harriet-powers/
