Collier's Magazine Cover Art Quilt
1932 · Painted, embroidered and pieced quilt; dyed and undyed cotton plain weave fabrics; paint and cotton embroidery threads
194.4 × 170.7 cm (76 1/2 × 67 1/4 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Wilda A. Rice
Artist
WA-00000664
Textile art (quilt)Pop Art
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- BiographyMuseum· 80%
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- Aic ExhibitionsTier 3 · Scraped/inferred70%
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Wilda A. Rice was an American textile artist active in the 1930s who created painted, embroidered, and pieced quilts drawing imagery from popular culture. Her work combined multiple textile techniques, painting, embroidery, and piecing, within a single quilt surface, a practice uncommon among her contemporaries. Rice's quilts functioned as a form of visual commentary on the mass media and consumer culture of the Depression era.
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Pop Art
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Textile art (quilt)
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