Quilt, “Stars” pattern

Beulah Hardy

1940s

  • Titles Quilt, "Stars" pattern (Descriptive)
  • Artist Beulah Hardy, American, Gordo, Alabama
  • Medium textiles
  • Dimensions 89 × 67 in. (226.1 × 170.2 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Robert and Helen Cargo African American Quilt Collection; Gift of Caroline Cargo, AFI.813.2013
  • Work Type quilt
  • Classification Quilts

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Tall glass wine goblet with a shallow bowl of burgundy glass, the exterior of speckled light burgundy and white glass, the long stem, likewise with a white exterior, in the form of a stylized female without arms and with the two legs joining to form the lower portion of the stem, the round foot of clear glass, a burgundy glass "drip" emerges from the lip of the goblet and runs down the exterior of the bowl and stem to the female form where it divides into two drips.
Seven Sisters quilt
White silk ribbon printed in red and blue ink with eagle and shield motif derived from the Great Seal of the United States, and the American flag crowned with a red Phrygian cap, a symbol of freedom and the pursuit of liberty. Above the pictorial motif are the words: 1776. / JULY 4th / 1865.; below are the words: VICTORY! / LIBERTY! / PEACE!