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

Tents of Armageddon quilt
circa 1875–1910
wholecloth wool quilt
circa 1780–1830
Crazy quilt
circa 1880–1900
Pineapple quilt
1875–1900
Edith Lowell, Crazy quilt
circa 1880–1910
North Carolina Lily quilt
circa 1850–1900