Quilt Blocks, “Grandmother’s Flower Garden” pattern

Alabama

About 1950

  • Titles Quilt Blocks, "Grandmother's Flower Garden" pattern (Descriptive)
  • Artist Alabama, Tuscaloosa County, United States
  • Medium textiles
  • Dimensions each: 16 x 16 in. (40.6 x 40.6 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Helen and Robert Cargo, AFI.147.2009.1-.8
  • Work Type quilt blocks
  • Classification Quilts

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