Embroidered+Garment

Date: ca. 1949
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1989/1989.78.2_1a.jpg?itok=aoB5KAxx width="256" height="314" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/embroidered-garment-31975"]] || Title: **Embroidered Garment**

Artist: **Alice Eugenia Ligon** Born: 1886 Died: Fulton, Missouri 1959

Medium: embroidered muslin, cotton crochet; pencil; cotton rick-rack trim Dimensions: 43 3/4 x 38 1/2 in. (111.1 x 97.8 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr.

Accession: 1989.78.2 || 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.
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