A digital image of a quilt with 15 pictorial panels in 3 rows of 5 images each. Per the museum's object page: "According to family history, Reverend Charles Cuthbert Hall received this quilt as a gift from a group of “faculty ladies” at Atlanta University in 1898. As Hall had recently become president of the Union Seminary in New York, the women may have commissioned or purchased the quilt from Harriet Powers as a tribute to his achievement. They also wished to thank Hall for his support of Atlanta University, founded in 1865 by the American Missionary Association to educate African Americans. This quilt’s Old and New Testament scenes made it an appropriate gift for a Presbyterian minister. Harriet Powers also depicted four stories of natural phenomena and a morality lesson. Many of the events occurred before her birth. Powers’s inclusion of these non-Biblical stories attests to their lasting importance to the artist and her community."
In honor of #NationalQuiltingDay -
Pictorial Quilt, 1895-98, by #HarrietPowers (American, 1837–1910). Held by @mfaboston.bsky.social,
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