Sunburst quilt, or Sunflower quilt, Julia Ann Chalmers

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Julia Ann Chalmers, Sunburst quilt, or Sunflower quilt
Julia Ann Chalmers, Sunburst quilt, or Sunflower quilt
Julia Ann Chalmers
Sunburst quilt, or Sunflower quilt
circa 1850
Julia Ann Chalmers, artist
1821–1904
Sunburst quilt, or Sunflower quilt, circa 1850
Where object was made: Galway, New York, United States
Material/technique: cotton; calico; quilting; piecing
Credit line: Gift of Miss Jane Bunyan
Accession number: 1928.0915
Not on display
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Exhibition Label:
"Quilts: Flora Botanica," Jun-2008, Barbara Brackman and Susan Earle
According to a label relating family history, Julia Chalmers made this quilt before her marriage in Galway, New York. The complex pieced design was named Sun, Sunburst, or Rising Sun in twentieth-century quilt pattern literature. We can also view it as a sunflower, an abstraction of nature’s geometry.

Exhibitions

Quilts from the Museum Collection
1978
Quilts: Flora Botanica
Barbara Brackman, curator
Susan Earle, curator
2008
Beauty of the Frontier: American Patchwork Quilts from the Collection of the Spencer Museum of Art
1987
Beauty of the Frontier: American Patchwork Quilts from the Collection of the Spencer Museum of Art
1987
Beauty of the Frontier: American Patchwork Quilts from the Collection of the Spencer Museum of Art
1987
Beauty of the Frontier: American Patchwork Quilts from the Collection of the Spencer Museum of Art
1987
Beauty of the Frontier: American Patchwork Quilts from the Collection of the Spencer Museum of Art
1988
Beauty of the Frontier: American Patchwork Quilts from the Collection of the Spencer Museum of Art
1988
Quilts from the University of Kansas Museum of Art
1974
Quilts from the University of Kansas Museum of Art
1974
Quilts from the University of Kansas Museum of Art
1974–1976
Quilts from the Collection
Kate Meyer, curator
2020