1932 - 1952 Ruth Patrick's "Animal Quilt"
date: label: date made
content: 1932-1952
name: label: maker
content: Patrick, Ruth Jones Black
notes: label: Description
content: Ruth Jones Black Patrick was born January 31, 1905, She was an artist, teacher and illustrator, and began making this quilt, her first, in 1932 for her infant son. He was 20 years old when she finished it! In a 1971 newspaper interview, she is quoted thus, “. . . Edward was a little boy, I needed some sort of cover for his bed and thought I’d do something original. It was just going to be a small quilt . . . but it grew as he did—into twin bed size.” She made her own designs for her quilts, inspired by life, pictures in books, and quilt patterns of the time. Her unique quilts won ribbons at Alabama State Fairs.She married December 25, 1930, Herbert Edward Black(1906-1954), and she died November 25, 1999.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Alabama, Montgomery
topic: label: Subject
content: Children's Literature
label: Subject
content: Children
label: Subject
content: Quilting
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Quilts
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mr. Edward D. Black
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0043.1
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0043.01
label: accession number
content: 1998.0043
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt, appliqued, pieced and embroidered
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: filling, cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 82 in x 54 in; 208 cm x 136 cm