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Katherine Westphal

Quilt

Description

Maker

Katherine Westphal (American, b. 1919), designer

Title

Quilt

Year

ca. 1963

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

cotton

Dimensions

231.1 cm (91 inches) (width)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Katherine Westphal

Object Number

1989.120.1

Type

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Infinite Variety
American Quilts and Coverlets
Jun 17, 2005 – Sep 18, 2005

Label copy

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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Katherine Westphal (American, b. 1919), designer
Quilt, ca. 1963
Cotton; stitched through
231.1 cm (91 inches) (width)
Gift of Katherine Westphal 1989.120.1

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