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player ready...It’s a classic case of all’s well that ends well, but five years ago, quilt artist Lynn Zetzman was distraught: The elaborate piece she’d spent 1,400 hours stitching was lost in the mail.
In January 1989, Zetzman, an Appleton, Wis., artist whose work typically sells in the $4,000 range, needed one of her quilts returned from Chicago’s Ann Nathan Gallery, where it was on display. Recalls gallery director Mary Donaldson: “Lynn needed the quilt back for another exhibition. We sent it back; it never got there.”
Seems the quilt, which features embroidered biblical text, images of the Virgin Mary and other religious imagery, had been causing quite a stir in Minneapolis.
In late 1989, Rev. Michael O’Connell, rector of the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis, bought the quilt from an antiques dealer, who bought it from a Salvation Army store. No one knows how the quilt got there.
This January, the quilt was spotted in O’Connell’s den by Minneapolis Institute of Arts curator Lotus Stack, who notified a local newspaper, which published an article. Notified of her quilt’s whereabouts, Zetzman insisted that O’Connell keep the quilt. She told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, “I just have goose-bumps thinking that it landed … into the hands of someone who appreciates the faith journey.”
Other examples of Zetzman’s work can be viewed at Ann Nathan Gallery, 210 W. Superior St., 312-664-6622.