About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Textiles
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Artist
- Barbara Palzewicz
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Title
- Dorothy's Quilt
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Origin
- Michigan
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Date
- Made 2000–2001
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Medium
- Appliquéd and embroidered quilt; dyed and printed cotton and polyester plain weave fabrics; cotton embroidery threads; printed, embroidered and edged cotton handkerchiefs
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Inscriptions
- Recto: May 30, 1910 Aug. 26, 2000 Dorothy, If I could take the tears cried into your hankies over Barney, Butch, and Les And turn them into flowers, in a garden you could rest If tears could build a stair way, and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven And bring you home again. verso (lower left): Dorothy's Quilt Gauthier Family Reunion Barbara Palzewicz 2001
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Dimensions
- 161.9 × 131.3 cm (63 3/4 × 51 3/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Fell
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Reference Number
- 2001.472
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