Figure of a woman with brown hair wearing an ochre broad-rimmed hat, long-sleeved, full-skirted dress painted blue-green with ochre trim on bodice only, and unpainted pantaloons with black shoes. She is also holding a hankerchief in her right hand and flowers in her left hand. Square plinth with clipped corners is lightly dabbed with tannish-brown. Back side is inpainted.
Inscription inside base is pencilled "PRC".
Provenance
Collected by Harpo and Susan Marx in Pennsylvania during their visits back East from CA. Donation to the Heritage Center.
Moderate soiling and paint loss. Small chips throughout; large loss on back right corner of base. Mended break in the left skirt. Several paint splatters on skirt front.
Object ID
G.98.51.75
Place of Origin
Pennsylvania
Credit
Given in memory of Harpo by Susan Marx, Heritage Center Collection
Log cabin quilt made of plain- and twill-weave wools. Quilt top composed of 156 log cabin blocks, 12 across and 13 down. Each block ( 6 1/2" square) is composed of 3/4"-wide logs with a central square of orange-red surrounded by brown and blue strips with the colors separated diagonally. Blocks are arranged in a Barn Raising pattern of concentric diamonds of blue and brown.
Three blue fabrics (2 twill & 1 plain) and two brown fabrics used. Brown twill is used through center areas and darker plain-weave brown in periphery. One corner block strongly varies by substituting a sheer camel brown instead of the darker browns, creating an anomaly. (Donor states this indicates a Quaker quilt).
The 0.25"-wide blue binding uses two wool fabrics, a coarse knit on three sides and a twill on the 4th side. Wool backing is a small-scale geometric print of browns.
Numerous small areas of stain, soil and holes. Some holes are large, e.g. 1.25" x .375", likely moth damage. Some of these holes are in the brown twill w/ lighter, heavier weft destroyed leaving the thin, darker warp threads).
Object ID
G.08.17.03
Place of Origin
Pennsylvania
Credit
Gift of Joanna S. Rose, Heritage Center Collection
