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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Place
- Michigan (Object made in:)
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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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