Quilts from the Museum Collection

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

Quilts from the Museum Collection
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, Unique Rose quilt
Mother of Clara Gillham
circa 1840–1880
Tents of Armageddon quilt
circa 1875–1910
Julia Ann Chalmers (1821–1904), Sunburst quilt, or Sunflower quilt
Julia Ann Chalmers (1821–1904)
circa 1850
wholecloth wool quilt
circa 1780–1830
Lizzie Smith, Democrat Rose quilt, or Whig Rose quilt
Lizzie Smith
circa 1840–1890
Crazy quilt
circa 1880–1900
Pineapple quilt
1875–1900
Emma B. Roessler, Autumn Leaf quilt
Emma B. Roessler
circa 1933–1940
Edith Lowell, Crazy quilt
Edith Lowell
circa 1880–1910
North Carolina Lily quilt
circa 1850–1900
Miss Gladback, Log Cabin Straight Furrow quilt
Miss Gladback
circa 1880–1910