Unveiling+of+the+Statue+of+Liberty

Date: 1964
 * [[image:http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=http://americanart.si.edu/images/1972/1972.15_1a.jpg&max=460 width="257" height="347" link="@http://www.americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=21317"]] || Title: Unveiling of the Statue of Liberty

Artist: **Katherine Westphal** Born: Los Angeles, California 1919

Copy after **Edward Moran** Born: Bolton, England 1829 Died: New York, New York 1901

Medium: batiked, quilted, and embroidered fabric Dimensions: 92 3/4 x 66 1/2 in. (235.5 x 168.9 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Katherine Westphal Rossbach

Accession: 1972.15 || I want to become a link in that long chain of human activity, the patterning of cloth on any surface available. I have learned from many cultures and pay homage to them. My work is pretty much autobiographical and narrative. It records my travel – anything I see or experience can pop out in my work, the connection being most often intuitive. I draw constantly in museums and, because life is so speeded up, I record with a camera as well as a sketchbook.
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My baskets build one stitch at a time – color, shape, image, idea – in a spiral pattern, a growth form. Each basket has a name – and an identity, and each basket is part of a series. The ideas can stem from nature, art, or from the chance remark of a friend. My baskets are not narrative or representational; they are my emotional reaction to a place, event or object.

-Katherine Westphal

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