Description:
Appliqued and pieced, figurative fork art quilt with 56 blocks laid out side-by-side, each with embroidered and appliqued scenes of usually two or more white and/or African-American men, women or children usually standing, sitting, or in some activity; a four-sided teacup border with embroidered edge in yellow thread; and silk backing. The quilt was made by Fannie Bouviere Stebbins (1846-1933) and took 11 months to complete. Born in Hartford, Fannie Stebbins married George D. Stebbins (b.c.1847) of Hartford in 1867, and they celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary in 1929 when George was 82 yrs. and Fannnie 84 yrs. The scenes are made appliquing multi-colored scraps of silk, wool, linen, cotton, lace, etc., shaped into people and forms, to a colored, cotton sateen ground. In 1997, one of the summer fellowship program students noted that the block with a young boy holding a whip while seated in a wagon harnessed to a African-American man, which was copied directly from a 1921 Cream of Wheat advertisement captioned "Giddap Uncle" (see data file).

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