Skirt

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Tarble Art Center

Name/Title

Skirt

Entry/Object ID

2014.2.1

Description

Pleated skirt woven with slightly rough black yarn; Five sets of three blue stripes from middle to bottom of skirt; thickness of stripes increases when from top to bottom; blue thread includes gold plastic thread; at slit is a metal fastener and metal snap-close buttons

Collection

Illinois Folk Arts Collection

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Gift of Norma Heck Buzzard Kjeldgaard

Made/Created

Artist

Buzzard, Irene C.

Notes

Date made: Between 1960-1963

Location

Vault

Permanent Collection Storage

Building

Tarble Arts Center

Institution

Eastern Illinois University

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Woven by Irene Couchman Buzzard when she and Robert Buzzard lived in Tempe, Arizona. Given as a Christmas gift to daughter-in-law, Norma Heck Buzzard who was married to Charles Buzzard. She often wore it to receptions and dinners, even to a reception in honor of Vice President Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson.

Created By

jonathan@catalogit.app

Create Date

March 27, 2025