Baltimore Album Quilt Top
Various artists
1845–48
Medium
Cotton
Dimensions
9 ft. 9 in. × 9 ft. 9 in. (297.2 × 297.2 cm)
Classification
Quilt top
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, by exchange and funds from various donors, 2016
Accession Number
2016.172
About the Artist
Various artists
"Various Artists" is not the pseudonym of a singular figure in art history but rather a cataloging convention employed by museums, auction houses, and galleries to attribute works created by multiple collaborators, anonymous makers, or participants in group projects. This term facilitates the documentation of collective endeavors where individual contributions blur or are intentionally undifferent...