African American Medallion Quilt

Finding a strongly documented African American quilt is thrilling, and here we have one. See below for provenance in italics. Published and exhibited.

The quilt is in very good condition and has been prepared for hanging with an added white cotton back and a velcro strip at the top. Machine quilted.

Note: In the catalog description from Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 138, cat. no. 433A, Burrison writes, “This African American quilt was made as a light cover, its thin middle layer apparently a quilt top. With its framed center and improvised strip border, Anglo-American and African American design elements are combined.”

Illustrated: Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, plate 13, description on pg. 138, cat. no. 433A.

Exhibited: Previously on Loan at the Atlanta History Center for viewing in the exhibition Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in the Changing South from 1996 to 2024

Provenance: From the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia