Why Quilts Matter: History, Art & Politics – Image Resources

Episode 3 – The Quilt Marketplace

Why Quilts Matter - Episode 3 - Quilt Marketplace

Image credit: Quilts: An American Romance. May 12 – 17, 1980. Somerset Mall, Troy, Michigan. Courtesy Shelly Zegart.

The marketplace for quilts has always been a bit of a mystery. It’s hard to understand why some quilts are so much pricier than others, and why some old quilts aren’t worth anything at all. And how can an artist ask $10,000 for a brand new quilt…and get it? Discover why one 19^th-century quilt was worth $264,000 and how a quilt can go from $150 to $20,000 as it passes from picker to dealer, up the ladder of expertise. Find out how artists price their quilts in the contemporary market and how technology is changing the playing field forever.

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$Mariner\'s Compass Maker unknown 19th century Cotton, chintz 100$

$Dad\'s Lone Star Ricky Tims and Richard Tims 2002 Hand-dyed cotton 93$

$Daisies Won\'t Tell Mary Gasperik 1930-1949 Cotton, broadcloth 76$

$Noah\'s Ark Inscribed$

$The Reconciliation Quilt: Lucinda Ward Honstain\'s Pictorial Diary of an American Era by Melissa Stewart Jurgena and Patricia Cox Crews Folk Art Magazine Fall 2003 American Folk Art Museum New York, New York www.folkartmuseum.org$

$Crewel Embroidery Maker unknown c. 1800 97 ½\" x 98 ½\" Photo by Joe Ofria Item number 1991.02-5888 New England Quilt Museum Lowell, Massachusetts www.nequiltmuseum.org More info at www.quiltindex.org$

$Markings #9: Compromise Nancy Crow 2006-2007 Cotton, hand-quilted by Maria Hattabaugh 40 ½\" x 42\" Photo by J. Kevin Fitzsimons Nancy Crow: Recent and New Work exhibition May 29 - August 15, 2010 Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center Auburn, New York www.schweinfurthartcenter.org www.nancycrow.com$

$Pinwheels and Feathers Alex Anderson 56 ½\" x 56 ½\" From Beautifully Quilted with Alex Anderson C&T Publishing, 2003 Concord, California Courtesy of C&T Publishing$

$Crushed Down and Put Under the Pillow Karen Musgrave 2008 Cotton and organza 40\" x 29\" B-roll Alan Miller$

$Secret Gay Quilt Shawn Quinlan 2002-2003 Commercial fabrics 50\" x 55\" Photo by Shawn Quinlan www.shawnquinlan.com$

$Lay of the Land II Valerie Goodwin 2009 Commercial and painted fabric 54\" x 84\" Photo by Joseph Coscia Collection of John M. Walsh, III$

$Water Terrie Hancock Mangat 2010 Sheer silk, cotton, acrylic paint, rhinestones, sequins, chandelier crystals, glass bugle beads, cotton handembroidery thread, other beads, hand-dyed ribbon 122\" x 98\" Photo by Joseph Coscia Collection of John M. Walsh, III$

$Savannah: 2 of Cups in the Kitchen Tarot Susan Shie 2009 White Kona cotton, airbrush paint, fabric paint, cotton machine-sewing thread, nature-fill bamboo and cotton batting, perle cotton embroidery thread, two beads 90\" x 89\" Photo by Joseph Coscia Collection of John M. Walsh, III$

$Surf Swimmers Tim Harding 1998 Silk, cotton duck backing 89\" x 138\" diptych Photo by Gregory Case Collection of John M. Walsh, III$

$Describing Rain Rachel Brumer 2006 Hand-dyed cotton, silk paint, walnut ink 84\" x 127\" Photo by Gregory Case Collection of John M. Walsh, III$

$Flow Joan Schulze 1995 Silk, cotton, paint, laser toner and photo transfer 101\" x 101\" Collection of John M. Walsh, III$

$Reflection #3 Caryl Bryer Fallert 1990 77\" x 45\" Item number 1997.07.15 The National Quilt Museum Paducah, Kentucky www.quiltmuseum.org More info at www.quiltindex.org$

$Renaissance Revival Mariya Waters 2007 86 ½\" x 86 ½\" Item number 2009.01.01 The National Quilt Museum Paducah, Kentucky www.mariyawaters.com www.quiltmuseum.org More info at www.quiltindex.org$