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Mary Lue Brown
‘Hit and Miss’circa 1945

On view:
Geffen Galleries
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.
Pieced textile quilt with a bold checkerboard pattern of red corduroy and blue fabric squares, bordered by multicolored vertical strips and a row of mixed fabric patches in navy, khaki, and brown along the bottom edge, with visible white hand-quilting stitches throughout.
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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