Contemporary art quilts in U.S. museum collections Is there a trend? by Sandra Sider
W
e can celebrate the fact that United States museums own more than 1800 art quilts. As you might expect, nearly 75 percent of these quilts are owned by nine quilt museums across the country, ranging from more than 400 each at the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky, and the International Quilt Study Center and Museum in Lincoln,
Nebraska, to five at the Virginia Quilt Museum in Harrisonburg. Other museums also have art quilt collections, including more than 50 pieces in the American Folk Art Museum (New York City), Illinois State Museum, National September 11 Memorial & Museum (NYC, 80), Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, and the
Faith Ringgold Church Picnic 72 x 72 inches, 1988 Collection of the High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA), Faith Ringgold Š1988
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