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Quilted Bed
Image provided by donor - not for public use.
Image provided by donor - not for public use.

Quilted Bed

Artist Ruenell Foy Temps (American, 1940 - 2020)
Date1970-1974
MediumStoneware
DimensionsOverall: 5 1/2 × 6 × 8 inches (13.97 × 15.24 × 20.32 cm)
Credit LineGift of the estate of Ruenell Foy Temps
Object number2025.82.6
On View
Not on view
DescriptionSmall sculpture of bed with incised coverlet and two standing bed posts at headProvenance

The artist;

By inheritance to her husband, Clifford Temps, 2020;

His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2025.

Published References
Sheridan Hill, All I Have: Celebrating Ceramic Artist Ruenell Foy Temps, 1940-2020 (Old Fort, NC: Real Life Stories, Inc., 2021): 43 (ill.)
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Ruenell Foy Temps
ca. 2000-2015
2025.82.3
Image provided by donor - not for public use.
Ruenell Foy Temps
1970-1974
2025.82.1.1-4
Image provided by donor - not for public use.
Ruenell Foy Temps
1970-1974
2025.82.2.1,2
Untitled
Ruenell Foy Temps
1974
2025.82.7
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Ruenell Foy Temps
1975-1979
2025.82.4
Image provided by donor - not for public use.
Ruenell Foy Temps
1970-1974
2025.82.5.1-4
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1995
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