Quilts from the Museum Collection

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

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Quilts from the Museum Collection
Kress Gallery, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

The Museum's fine collection of more than a hundred quilts has been assembled over the last half century. This exhibition of 18th, 19th, and 20th-century quilts will include examples of major styles and techniques of quiltmaking, including patchwork, applique, and stuffed. A Kansas Quilt Symposium, sponsored by the Kaw Valley Quilters Guild on July 20-22 will be held in conjunction with the quilt exhibit in the Kress gallery.

Works of art

Mother of Clara Gillham
circa 1840–1880
circa 1875–1910
Julia Ann Chalmers
circa 1850
circa 1780–1830
Lizzie Smith
circa 1840–1890
circa 1880–1900
Susan Black Stayman
1853
Mary M. Stayman
1925–1940
1875–1900
Rose Frances Good Kretsinger
1926
Rose Frances Good Kretsinger
1927
Rose Frances Good Kretsinger
1928
Rose Frances Good Kretsinger
1927
Rose Frances Good Kretsinger
1926
Rose Frances Good Kretsinger
1927
Rose Frances Good Kretsinger
1928
Rose Frances Good Kretsinger
1929
Rose Frances Good Kretsinger
1929
Rose Frances Good Kretsinger
1946
Christina Hays Malcom
1873
Christina Hays Malcom
circa 1840–1884
Christina Hays Malcom
circa 1870–1884
Harriett Theetge James
circa 1900–1925
Harriett Theetge James, Mary Eliza Theetge Malcom
circa 1900–1929
Emma B. Roessler
circa 1933–1940
Edith Lowell
circa 1880–1910
M. A. C.
circa 1820–1840
circa 1850–1900
Harriett Theetge James
circa 1922
Miss Gladback
circa 1880–1910