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Escape from Circle City

Sylvia Pickell1986

The National Quilt Museum

The National Quilt Museum
Paducah, United States

"Escape from Circle City was my first attempt at 'innovative' work and was only my third or fourth large piece. It was created as a catharsis to my frustration with the winner of the Great American quilt Festival in 1986. I was in a dark mood and pulled out every shade of grey fabric I owned and threw them (literally) on the floor. I visualized an 'escape from traditional' and sketched a design. The whole quilt was drafted full size on news print, and cut apart for freezer paper patterns."

-Sylvia Pickell

Details

  • Title: Escape from Circle City
  • Creator: Sylvia Pickell
  • Date Created: 1986
  • Location: Collection of The National Quilt Museum, Paducah, Kentucky, United States
  • Location Created: Richardson, Texas, United States
  • Physical Dimensions: 60" x 67"
  • Subject Keywords: Realism, Appliquê, Machine quilting
  • Type: Quilt
  • Rights: Copyright held by the artist
  • External Link: The National Quilt Museum
  • Medium: Fabric
  • Techniques Used: Machine appliquêd, painted, long-arm machine quilted
  • Materials Used: Cottons
  • Accession Number: 1997-06-19

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