Judy Mulford first learned to make traditional pine needle baskets after her children left home. As her skills developed she began to incorporate photographs, words, beads, and buttons into her knotted and woven sculptures. Tribute is crafted from materials that relate to Mulford’s family and is embroidered with the words “Respect and Honor Yourself. Risk. Enjoy.”
“[My baskets] started off as simple statements, but over the years [they] have become more decorative and complicated. They have become the scrapbooks of my life.” Judy Mulford, Shuttle, Spindle & Dye-pot, 2001
- Title
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Tribute
- Artist
- Date
- 1997
- Location
- Dimensions
- 18 x 5 in. (45.7 x 12.7 cm) diam.
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of Mobilia Gallery
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- gourd, waxed linen, silver and glass beads, fine silver, mother-of-pearl buttons, polymer clay, photographic transfers, paper and paint
- Classifications
- Keywords
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- Allegory – quality – pride
- Abstract
- Object – written matter
- Allegory – quality – fortitude
- Object Number
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1998.145
- Palette
- Linked Open Data
- Linked Open Data URI