Quilts from the Collection
Exhibition
Exhibition Overview
Quilts from the Collection
Kate Meyer, curator
https://spencerartapps.ku.edu/spencer-projects/3334
This grouping highlights 120 quilts from the collection: more than the Museum could likely every display at one time due to space limitations and the light-sensitivity and fragility of these textiles.
Exhibition images
Works of art
circa 1880–1910
Rena Coon Thomas
1860
Mother of Clara Gillham
circa 1840–1880
circa 1880–1900
circa 1880–1910
circa 1875–1920
circa 1880–1910
circa 1880–1910
Clarenca Bradford Kimble
circa 1850–1880
circa 1925–1950
circa 1875–1910
circa 1840–1870
circa 1875–1910
circa 1880–1910
Julia Ann Chalmers (1821–1904)
circa 1850
Elizabeth Hart (1829–1904); John Hewson
1848
circa 1840–1890
circa 1880–1910
circa 1880–1910
circa 1825–1850
Edith Lowell
circa 1880–1910
circa 1890–1910
circa 1850–1890
Rhoda Garretson Hoopes Altemus (born 1795)
circa 1850–1880
Lizzie Smith
circa 1840–1890
circa 1890–1920
circa 1880–1900
circa 1880–1900
Catherine Grabill Landis
circa 1840–1860
1925–1940
Ella Maria Lathrop (1849–?)
1850–1940
Martha E. Gross
1880–1910
1875–1900
circa 1840–1884
circa 1840–1884
circa 1870–1884
circa 1880–1900
circa 1922
circa 1920–1929
circa 1890–1929
circa 1900–1929
Miss Gladback
circa 1880–1910
Grandmother of Willis C. McEntarfer (died circa 1865–1875)
circa 1840–1860
Emma B. Roessler
circa 1933–1940
Eleanor Bourassa Ziegler (1853–1937); Carrie Holland (1886–1951)
1930–1931
Friends of Anthony Coler and Matilda Charlotte Cook Coler (active 1845–1929)
1884
circa 1850–1880
circa 1840–1887
circa 1840–1887
Anna Marie Espenlaub (1879–1963)
circa 1925–1950
circa 1927–1945
Laura O'Hara (1882–1952)
circa 1937–1938
Mina Morse Shaler (1865–1938)
circa 1879
Mary Elizabeth Russel Kile (1856–1940)
1934
Mary Ann Seeling Kile Elliot (1831–1915)
circa 1840–1950
Emma Wittwer Edie (1872–1950)
early 1940s
Lillian Hutter
circa 1880–1910
Marquetta Johnson (active late 1900s); Faith Ringgold (1930–2024)
1985
circa 1875–1910
Emma Hurd (1858–1936)
1886
circa 1910
Lisa S. Turner
1988
2004–2005
circa 1930
unrecorded Lakota artist
late 1800s–1980
Rita Belgarde (1918–2005)
1999
Mary Allen Marshall (1825–1912)
circa 1880–1910
2007
2017
