Embroidered Garment
Identifier
http://dp.la/api/items/69d275e33895eeb2df5c77e96c04efef
Title
Embroidered Garment
Creator
Alice Eugenia Ligon, born Boone County, MO 1886-died Fulton, MO 1959
Date
ca. 1949
Description
For many folk artists, life-changing events such as death, injury, or disease that affects the family may trigger a period of great creativity. According to the embroidered inscription, Ligon created this dress as a Christmas gift for her children while she was a patient at Fulton State Hospital. She was hospitalized there in 1949 and 1953 for an unspecified condition. Ligon enjoyed sewing, crocheting, and quilting, but this garment; this gown, probably her first hospital gown or uniform, shows her remarkable skill. She crocheted the hem and sleeves and used every available inch of cloth to embroider religious, patriotic, popular, and personal portraits, vignettes, and inscriptions.Exhibition Label, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006
Subject
Trees
Adam (Biblical figure)
Figure group
Religion
Discovery of United States
Allegory
Flowers
History
Landscapes
Animals
Life
Bible, O.T
Eve (Biblical figure)
Ligon, Alice Eugenia
Animal
Landscape
Tree
Life
Old Testament
Eve
Adam
United States
Discovery of United States
Object
Flower
Written matter
Source
Smithsonian Institution
Relation
Subject
Trees
Adam (Biblical figure)
Figure group
Religion
Discovery of United States
Allegory
Flowers
History
Landscapes
Animals
Life
Bible, O.T
Eve (Biblical figure)
Ligon, Alice Eugenia
Animal
Landscape
Tree
Life
Old Testament
Eve
Adam
United States
Discovery of United States
Object
Flower
Written matter
Collection
Citation
Alice Eugenia Ligon, born Boone County, MO 1886-died Fulton, MO 1959, “Embroidered Garment,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed May 18, 2024, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/27780.
Added by Rebecca Keyel
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