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Quilting Frolic is an oil-on-canvas genre painting by American artist John Lewis Krimmel (1786–1821). It was painted in Philadelphia in 1813. Purchased in 1953, the work is held in the permanent collection of the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library.
A similar quilt, with a similar provenance, is in the collection of the Winterthur Museum and Library, [1] which also holds a collection of documents related to the Savery family. [4] A third quilt in the pattern is held by the American Folk Art Museum. [5] One of the Friendship quilts is in the collection of the International Quilt Study ...
Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library is an American estate and museum in Winterthur, Delaware. Winterthur houses one of the richest collections of Americana in the United States. [1] [2] The museum and estate were the home of Henry Francis du Pont (1880–1969), Winterthur's founder and a prominent antiques collector and horticulturist.
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Quilt museums in the United States (10 P) R. Rhode Island School of Design Museum (1 C, 3 P) ... Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library; Wolfsonian-FIU; Woodford ...
John Lewis Krimmel (May 30, 1786 – July 15, 1821), sometimes called "the American Hogarth," was America's first painter of genre scenes.Born in the Holy Roman Empire, he immigrated to Philadelphia in 1809 and soon became a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
The Kunst Museum Winterthur (The Winterthur Museum of Art) is an art museum in Winterthur, Switzerland run by the local Kunstverein.From its beginnings, the activities of the Kunstverein Winterthur were focused on contemporary art – first Impressionism, then Post-Impressionism and especially Les Nabis, through post-World War II and recently created works by Richard Hamilton, Mario Merz and ...
Fales, who went by M'Lou, was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia, on October 31, 1930.Her father, Preston Boehner Gandy, was a physician. [1] She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wilson College in 1952 and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Delaware in 1954, as one of the first graduating class of the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture.