Quilt - Individual Watching Pieces of Painting Blow in the Wind
Object type
Artifact
- Description
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A quilt created by Malcolm Harrison showing the silhouette of an individual in blue standing on an island watching pieces of a painting blow away with the wind. Signed by the artist and dated 1990.
Contains an orange background with orange bordering and patterned stitching. The obverse has a white background with multiple generic scenes in 18th century style in orange outline. The island holding the individual contains a poem: "Wind blew away the pieces of the rejected painting, only the lilacs retained an innocence."
The quilt was commissioned by Marilyn Brown, a Palmerston North City Council representative for the the Community Arts Group, in 1990.
Identification
- Date
- 1990 to 1990
- Identifier
- PNCC 00085:1:1
- Location
- Ian Matheson City Archives
- Access
- Open
- Copies
- 1
- Related series (1)
- PNCC Archives > Library Assets (PNCC 00085)
- Related creating agency (1)
- Palmerston North City Council