QUILT INDEX RECORD

52-152-539

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Quilt Alliance

Who documented this quilt?

Quilt Alliance; Inspired By

Quilt Alliance Inventory Number:

63

Quilt Title:

The Darwin Quilt

Width:

16 inches

Length:

16 inches

Time period:

2000-2025

Date:

June 1, 2014

Materials:

Cotton fabric, hand appliqued and embroidered, machine quilted

Quiltmaker:

Van Bockel, Jean

City:

Boise

State:

Idaho

Artist's Statement:

Honorable Mention: Members' Choice Awards

From the DAR collection there is a beautiful appliqued quilt made by Josephine Miller Adkins in 1874. Her family called it the Biblical Stories Quilt. It was made right after Darwin's theory of evolution was published, This shocking new concept stirred up controversy around the world and is still debated 140 years later. I took design ideas from Josephine's quilt but used bright colors, added a Darwin fish and put a monkey on the tree of knowledge.

Inspiration quilt:
 

 

Maker not recorded. Garden of Eden. 1874. From DAR Museum, Permanent Collection.