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The mood depicted in the Depression-era Prosperity Quilt is one of deliberate optimism, as artist Fannie B. Shaw has presented people from all walks of life looking around the corner for the prosperity promised by the president. In a 1988 interview she explained, “My inspiration came from Herbert Hoover. Every time you picked up the paper or heard the radio he would talk about good times around the corner. He would make it sound so good. I wondered if I could make a picture of what he said and what he meant. I went to bed one night and couldn’t get it off my mind.” Shaw and her neighbors would have to wait almost ten years for Uncle Sam to arrive at the lower right corner with “farm relief, legal beer, and aid."
Adapted from
DMA unpublished material.
Fun Facts
Fannie B. Shaw is a local artist, from Van Alstyne, Texas.
Archival Resources
Web Resources
- Art Everywhere US~The Prosperity Quilt was one of 58 artworks selected for Art Everywhere US in 2014.
- LA Times~The article "These quilts with messages about gun violence and racial injustice issues aim to discomfort," published February 20, 2016, mentions the Prosperity Quilt as a predecessor of contemporary quilts that address social issues.
Notes
- DMA unpublished material = TMS public notes, which was transcribed from audio content produced for the Art Everywhere US Blippar app
- Provenance Note: James P. Barrow is the anonymous donor. The main source for this provenance is Deed of Gift (dated December 25, 1998, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File, Documentation).
- updated provenance and geo x refs in TMS (HAB, 2/16/17)
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Shaw_Fannie B.: ULAN: 500336582
Cultures
Geography
Process/materials
piecing: AAT: 300231250, appliqué (technique): AAT: 300053646, embroidering: AAT: 300053653, embroidery (visual works): AAT: 300264024
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
quilts: AAT: 300197990
economics: AAT: 300054359
politics: AAT: 300055537
political art: AAT: 300256621
elephant (animal): AAT: 300250160
donkeys: AAT: 300265959
Great Depression: DMA
Prohibition: DMA
beer: DMA
Uncle Sam: DMA
text (layout feature): AAT: 300250810
grids (layout feature): AAT: 300200010
figures
architecture
perspective
farmer
farming
horse
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PROVENANCE
Until 1998: Private Collection, Dallas, Texas [1]
From 1998: Dallas Museum of Art, anonymous gift
[1] The main source for this provenance is Deed of Gift (dated December 25, 1998, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File, Documentation).
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