The Hortense Horwn Beck Collection, presented in 2008 for the education collection of theInternational Quilt Study Center in Lincoln, Nebraska, is the only assemb”/age of”late,twentieth,century reproduction American masterpiece quilts, according w the IQSC’s direcwr, Dr. Patricia Crews. The Hortense Horton Beck Collection is a showcase of complex andchallenging “museum ‘picture”‘ quilts (as the maker called such picwrial appuque quilts),revealing technical skills that rival those of the original quiltmakers. This generous gift allows these reproductions of significant American quilts tv be shared ‘With diverse audiences in a broadrange of exhibition spaces and conditions.
Using Hortense Beck’s auwbiography and notebooks, oral histvries, ephemera, newspaperarticles, and the quilts themselves, this paper explores the motivations and processes behindHortense’s mission w interpret and recreate some of America’s iconic applique quilts.
Read more
