Softball Champs CRCI Bldg 6, 1993

Details

Raymond Materson (b. 1954)
Softball Champs CRCI Bldg 6, 1993
initialed and dated © RM '93 lower right
unraveled sock threads
embroidered image 2 ¼ x 3 in.; overall 3 3/8 x 4 ¾ in. (sight)

Provenance

American Primitive Gallery, New York

Literature

Ray Materson and Melanie Materson, Sins and Needles: A Story of Spiritual Mending (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2002) p. 186.
Elizabeth V. Warren, The Perfect Game: America Looks at Baseball (American Folk Art Museum, 2003), pp. 15, 55-56.

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., The Four Seasons Hotel, 1998 - 2010.
New York, The American Folk Art Museum, The Perfect Game: America Looks at Baseball, 17 June 2003 - 25 January 2004.
Tucson, Arizona, The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures, Mending the Soul with Miniature Stitches: The Needlework of Ray Materson, 22 September 2015 - 10 January 2016.

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