Velvet Pieced Quilt
Cora Parker
c. 1938
Medium
watercolor and graphite on paper
Dimensions
overall: 34.9 x 25.9 cm (13 3/4 x 10 3/16 in.)
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.348
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Cora Parker · 1855–present
Cora Parker (1859–1944) was an American painter and educator born in Kentucky. She studied at the Cincinnati Art School and the Académie Julian in Paris, receiving tutelage from William Merritt Chase. This training shaped her painterly technique of focused brushstrokes that created softened, impressionistic effects. Parker taught oil painting at the University of Kansas in Lawrence from 1887 to 1...