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Mary Lue Brown
‘Hit and Miss’circa 1945

On view: David Geffen GalleriesTextile Conversations: Africa and Black America
Textile quilt with a checkerboard pattern of crimson red and cerulean blue rectangular patches forming undulating vertical columns, framed by a multicolored patchwork border
Pieced textile with an asymmetric grid of red and blue fabric patches; red sections show fine parallel ribbing, with scattered small white and pink stitches across the surface.

Mary Lue Brown, ‘Hit and Miss’, circa 1945, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019 Collector's Committee, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Mary Lue Brown
United States, Texas, Dallas, 1891 - 1979
Title
‘Hit and Miss’
Place Made
United States
Date Made
circa 1945
Medium
Cotton corduroy, wool twill, wool plain weave, acrylic plain weave, rayon damask, cotton/polyester twill, cotton plain weave with warp patterning, and rayon plain weave (crepe), pieced and quilted
Dimensions
98 3/8 × 78 1/2 in. (249.87 × 199.39 cm)
Credit Line
2019 Collector's Committee
Accession Number
M.2019.219.1
Classification
Textiles
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Yau, Elaine Y., editor. Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California. Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2025.
Copyright
© Estate of Mary Lue Brown

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