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Katherine Westphal, designer

Quilt, ca. 1963

Description

Maker

  • Katherine Westphal, b. 1919, American, designer

Title

Quilt

Year

ca. 1963

Medium

Cotton; stitched through

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • cotton

Techniques

  • printing,
  • printed,
  • plain weave,
  • quilting,
  • piecing,
  • patchwork,
  • batik

Dimensions

231.1 cm (91 inches) (width)

Type

  • Textiles,
  • Fiber Art

Credit

Gift of Katherine Westphal

Object Number

1989.120.1

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Infinite Variety

June 17 - September 18, 2005

Katherine Westphal has used quilts and quilting among many other media and techniques during a lifetime of making art. She added a new dimension to the quilter's repertoire by hand printing her own fabrics -- perhaps inspired to do so by the ways in which, decades earlier, makers of crazy quilts used embroidery and paint in creating their works.

This quilted hanging was exhibited at Milan's 13th Triennale in 1969.

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The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Quilt with the accession number of 1989.120.1. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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