The Sower

The Sower Quilt

The Sower Quilt

Name/Title

The Sower

Entry/Object ID

1999.010.001

Description

Art Quilt - "Whole-cloth cyanotype photogram, painting, hand embroidered, machine quilted"

Context

Artist Statement: "The Sower is a self-portrait quilt of my body printed by the sun onto cotton fabric sensitized with cyanotype (blueprint) chemicals. This art quilt celebrates the rebirth and renewal of spring, and of art, as the sower [sewer] dances from darkness into light."

Collection

Permanent Collection

Acquisition

Accession

1999.010

Source or Donor

Sandra Sider

Notes

Transparency photo should be accessioned

Made/Created

Artist

Sandra Sider

Date made

1997

Place

* Untyped Place

New York

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall Quilt Dimensions

Width

55 in

Length

54 in

Material

Cotton, Paint

Color

Blue