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2014.001.001 - Quilt

This quilt is an adaption by Ida Love Brannum (Branham) Bruce (1875 - 1964) of the Mountain Mist Poinsettia Pattern first published in 1933. Mountain Mist Patterns were free and came as part of the wrapping for cotton batting. The quilt features red flowers with yellow centers and four green leaves. The edges of the applique are blanket-stitched in black. The background fabric is white. The textile is fan-quilted. The techniques and colors of th...

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2015.006.037 - Drawing

Black and white illustration of a townscape. Two mountain ridges are visible in the background. There are several stores with names, a bridge, and other downtown features presented along the street in the drawing. "At the Foot of Mingus Jerome, Arizona" and "JTF" are stamped or printed on the backside of the illustration.

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2016.011.006 - Etching

This solar etching is titled "The Only Tracks I Saw." The artist wrote, "I spent many hours on Ford Mountain and some of the older, 'reclaimed' mining sites. The only wildlife I saw were a few deer and these tracks - the big ones are wild turkey and the little ones must be a songbird's." The central image of this etching are animal tracks in mud. This collection was featured in Frazier's 2007 exhibit "Brushy: Between the Halves of My Heart."

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2016.011.012 - Etching

The central image of this solar etching features rocky soil in the foreground with some barren trees on the left. There are trees against a skyline in the distance. This etching by Hope Frazier features a barren landscape with rocky soil encompassing the scene. Frazier wrote, "I made the photograph for this etching in 1999. You can see a few trees still hanging atop this flattened stretch of Ford Mountain." The artist made this piece using...

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2016.011.016 - Etching

This is a framed triptych of print materials, including two grayscale solar-plate etchings of photographs with a page of text centered between the two etchings. The etching "Ford Mountain" is positioned on the far left, and the etching "Girl at Baptism" is positioned on the far right. A sheet of text titled "O Miner, O Mountain" is positioned in the center.

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2016.011.017 - Etching

This solar etching is titled "Mountain Angle." The artist wrote, "Even today, the Appalachian forests still standing are among the most biodiverse in the world. This image reminds me of the forest's value and of its vulnerability once the trees are taken away." The central image of this etching features a white sky with dark, contrasting barren trees in the background. A black terrain with a strip of white separating it from the trees is position...

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2016.013 - Patch, Insignia

This round fabric patch celebrations the Appalachian Girl Scout Council's "Mountain Magic" camp in 1970. The design of the patch is comprised of a light blue background with green mountains in the foreground that are decorated with musical symbols in red and brown. "Mountain Magic / 1970" is positioned in an arc above the mountain scene in red thread. "Appalachian Girl Scout Council" is positioned in an arc below the mountain scene in brown threa...

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2017.001.001 - Textile Construction

This is a patchwork style quilt that is overdyed green. The original 1960s quilt, made by Nervie Powers, has been reworked over time by Margaret Gregg, who added screen-printed images, symbols, and text throughout. Gregg recalls: "This work is about my years of doing and learning and remembering, especially in the Mountain communities of East Tennessee. The background is a quilt of Nervie Powers, 'my' mountain woman, who was a loving, wise, a...

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2017.009.001 - Artwork

This watercolor and hand-drawn illustration was created by the artist John Alan Maxwell. It features illustrations of John Sevier (left) and Daniel Boone (right). This piece features some collaged pieces as well, namely in the top left and right corners. The center of the artwork features a map of southwest Virginia and northeast Tennessee. "Principle points of [historic] interest" is handwritten above the map to the left. The bottom left corner ...

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2018.019.001 - Bottle

This is an empty 10 fluid oz clear glass bottle for Tri-City Beverages, USA. The front of the bottle has a blue and white applied color label (ACL) that reads: "Delicious / Tri-City Beverages / Quality Flavors." This version of bottle lacks the back label with the ingredients list. These bottles were general purpose and would have housed one of the many flavors of drink produced at the time.

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2018.019.003 - Bottle

This is a 12 fluid oz empty clear glass bottle for Dewshine (beverage) that is a discontinued flavor of Mountain Dew that ran from 2015 to 2017. Dewshine, unlike many other flavors, had sugar derived from sugar cane instead of corn syrup as the sweetener. The front of the bottle has a label with tattered edges. The label reads: "MTN DEW / Dewshine / Made with Real Sugar / Clear Citrus Flavored Dew / Naturally & Artificially Flavored." It also ...

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2018.021.006 - Painting

"Mountain Lakes" is an oil painting by Paul Lancaster (1930-2019), a Tennessee artist. The painting depicts a mountainous lake scene. The focal point of the painting is a muted, blue lake that is surrounded by grassy hills and a cloudy sky in the background and trees in the foreground. The painting features a variety of hues including yellows, greens, browns, and blues.

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2020.001.036 - Bottle

This is a 16 ounce Mountain Dew Game Fuel bottle (uncapped). The bottle's design is titled "Halo 3," featuring Master Chief. The Mountain Dew originally in this bottle was citrus cherry flavor. This bottle is part of the Green Label Art Mountain Dew Bottle Collection.

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2020.003.008 - Painting

Artist: This is an original oil and gold leaf on panel. The painting is about the magic of the creative process. These pencils are antique and such a pleasure to use, so they inspired this trompe l'oeil composition. Butterflies often find their way into my work and symbolize the metaphorical flight we embark upon as we are swept away from the cares of life and into a state of creative flow. This painting is about the magic of makin...

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2020.003.029 - Mixed Media

Artist: A 24inx 12in frame made of old Tennessee wormy barnwood. Inside is a hand crafted leather Tennessee state map with a custom handled knife with white stabilized bone encasing the letter V hand made from orange micarta. The V is represented as the center of the tooling of coVid19. This is surrounded by tooling of barbed wire reflecting how we have been fenced in. I crafted all but the knife steel. The old barn wood frame is from Tennesse...

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2021.002.003 - Photograph

"Reclaimed" is a digitally printed photograph on eco-canvas. The photograph was taken near Wise County, Virginia's Looney Ridge. It shows a tree-less rocky landscape with embroidered details including the yellow flowers, telephone lines, and roots off the side of the cliff. It was featured in the 2018 FL3TCH3R EXHIBIT: Social & Politically Engaged Art and won the Sammie L. Nicely Appalachian Artist Award that year. The artist writes of th...

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2022.010.007 - Painting

"High Mountain Light" by Xavier Ironside depicts a dark and ominous landscape with a shack (or barn) as the subject along with a dilapidated wood fence in the foreground and a bare sprawling tree. The piece is treated with brooding earthtones and outlying moments of saturated green. The overall scene is overlayed with gestural, illegible script in ink and white charcoal.

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2023.008.001 - Textile Construction

This quilted banner, titled "IN PRAISE OF MOUNTAIN WOMEN," was inspired by and created for a gathering of the same name. The first In Praise of Mountain Women gathering was held in southwest Virginia in May 1991 as a regional, biennial, coming-together weekend of community-based groups. By 2009, the gathering had hosted eight biennial events celebrating learning/teaching skills. Margaret Gregg created this banner from artifacts and images moun...

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2023.008.002 - Textile Construction

This burlap crossbody bag with hand-quilted and hand-stitched details was crafted by Ethel King of Clairfield, Tennessee, likely in the 1960s or 1970s. Ethel's details were added to the face of the bag, depicting a feminine figure comprised of vibrant colors. Her hair is outlined with hot pink thread, which also details a middle part along the scalp area. She also has a hair part in the middle of her hair done in pink string. Her hair is comprise...

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2023.008.003 - Textile Construction

This textile construction or wall hanging was quilted, stitched, and assembled by Ethel King of Clairfield, Tennessee, like in the 1960s or 1970s. The textile construction features a purple background with a pink butterfly and colorful flowers as the central image. The flowers are sprouting from green-blue hillside along the bottom of the piece. There are smaller green grass blades also sprouting from the hillside amidst the larger flower stems. ...

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2023.008.004 - Textile Construction

This textile construction or wall hanging was hand-quilted and hand-stitched onto burlap by Ethel King of Clairfield, Tennessee, likely in the 1960s or 1970s. The central image depicts a feminine figure with quilted pink skin. Her facial features include thin, dark eyebrows, ovular brown eyes, a wide nose, and upturned red lips outlined with hand-stitched thread. She has voluminous gray-white hair comprised of textured yarn. and she is wearing a ...

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2023.008.005 - Textile Construction

This textile construction or wall hanging was hand-quilted and hand-stitched by Nervie Powers of Clairfield, Tennessee, likely in the 1960s or 1970s. The textile construction depicts a feminine figure quilting while seated in a chair in a field of green grass with colorful flowers. The chair is navy blue, and a black flower is sprouting from the top of the chair. The woman has black hair on the top of her head, and she is wearing a black, white, ...

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2023.012.001 - Basket

Kudzu basket handcrafted by the late Reverend Jimmy Morrow of Cocke County, Tennessee. This basket is circular in shape and does not feature a handle. The dried kudzu is a dark green-brown hue. According to Jimmy's wife, Jimmy learned how to make these baskets "from mountain people."

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2023.012.002 - Basket

This kudzu basket was handcrafted by the late Reverend Jimmy Morrow of Cocke County, Tennessee. This basket is circular in shape and features a singular curved handle. The dried kudzu is a dark green-brown hue. According to Jimmy's wife, Mrs. Pamela Morrow, Jimmy learned how to make these baskets "from mountain people."

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2023.012.006 - Painting

This folk art painting features the story of a woman named Sally Moore in Cocke County, Tennessee in 1847. The narrative text reads: "Cocke County Tennessee Folk-Art Folk-Lore 1847 The Old Mountain Settlement of Naillon Sally Moore during the night got up was warming her self by the fire in the fire place and was bit by rattlesnake." The central image of this painting features a woman with long, black hair standing with he...

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2023.012.015 - Painting

This folk art painting depicts two religious practices that are occurring simultaneously. To the left, one man is handling two serpents on land. He has short brown/gray hair and is smiling. He wears a long-sleeved white shirt, brown trousers with a black belt, and black boots. He is holding one serpent in each hand, and both arms are raised upward. Both of the serpents are black with yellow arrow markings. A brown cabin labelled "Church of God" i...

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2023.012.017 - Painting

This folk art painting depicts a woman named Polly. She has long black hair, blue eyes, red, lips, spindly limbs, and is standing with her head tilted to one side (viewer's right). She is wearing a long blue dress with black strapped shoes, and her right hand is positioned on her right hip (viewer's left). She is sprinkling "mill" onto the ground with her left hand. There is a gray-brown snail with a smiling, human-like face and white markings po...

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2023.012.018 - Painting

This folk art painting depicts a man with black hair and a full beard, blue eyes, red lips, black boots, and a blue, full-body jumpsuit. The man is holding a double bit axe that is lodged in the back of a large yellow and black serpent. "During the colonies as Jacob Naillon was cutting trees huge rattlesnake crawl off the mountain into the Naillon settlement Jacob hit the rattlesnake in end of its tail with his double bit axe" / "The rattlesn...

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2023.027.013 - Kettle

This is a large, white tea kettle. It is painted with a floral pattern of mostly pink and yellow flowers and green leaves. The tea kettle features a small lid with a similar pattern of three pink flowers and green leaves. There are small blue flowers and a yellow flower on the lid. There is a backstamp in black on the bottom of the teapot that reads: "Original Blue Ridge Pattern SPI Erwin Pottery." The painted design of this kettle is attributed ...

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2023.027.014 - Kettle

This white tea kettle is painted with a floral pattern that features pink and yellow flowers and green leaves. The teapot comes with a small lid that is painted with a similar design featuring three pink flowers and green leaves. The lid's pattern contains small blue flowers and one yellow flower. There is a backstamp in black on the bottom of the tea kettle that reads: "Original Blue Ridge Pattern; Erwin Pottery." The painted design of this kett...

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