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Quilting Party

Quilting Party

Artist: Ralph Daniel Dunkelberger (American, 1894 - 1965)

Date: 1941
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions:
Framed: 35 3/4 x 41 3/4 x 1 in. (90.8 x 106 x 2.5 cm)
Panel (masonite): 29 7/8 x 36 1/8 in. (75.9 x 91.8 cm)
Credit Line:Museum Purchase
Object number: 1949.9.1
A native of Berks County, Dunkelberger studied art at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art with Thornton Oakley. He worked for a time as an illustrator for Harper’s Weekly. This large painting shows a group of women at a traditional quilting bee—a social gathering of women who were skilled in the art of quilting—in an interior decorated with a tall case clock and antique furniture.
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