Prep drawing for Maquette for Quilting Time, 1985

  • Romare Bearden, American, 1911 - 1988

Ink on plastic taped to foamcore board

  • Overall: 19 5/16 × 28 7/16 inches (49.1 × 72.2 cm) Mount: 24 7/8 × 33 1/4 inches (63.2 × 84.5 cm)

Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Detroit Edison Company

1986.42.2

Signed, in purple pen and ink, lower left: Rom | are | Bearden

Inscribed, in pen and red ink, through composition: [numeric notations] Inscribed, in pencil, on foamcore, upper right: COLOR AID

1986-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Romare Bearden: Origins and Progressions. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1986, p. 5 (ill.), cover. Taragin, D. "From Vienna to the Studio Craft Movement." Apollo 124, no. 298 (Dec. 1986): p. 84 (ill.).

Romare Bearden, Prep drawing for Maquette for Quilting Time, 1985, ink on plastic taped to foamcore board. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Detroit Edison Company, 1986.42.2.