Visual Art

Quilting Frolic

🎨 1813 genre painting by John Lewis Krimmel

👨‍🎨 John Lewis Krimmel

📅 1813

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Quilting Frolic is an oil-on-canvas genre painting by American artist John Lewis Krimmel (1786–1821). It was painted in Philadelphia in 1813. Purchased in 1953, the work is held in the permanent collection of the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library.

The painting depicts an interior domestic scene of merrymaking with a Black child serving and a Black fiddler entertaining partygoers celebrating the completion of a quilt.

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