Barbara ToddWorkSecurity BlanketsIndividual Works
Security Blanket: B2 Stealth Bomber (2) 1993
wool, appliqué and quilted, 285 x 265cm (112 x 104”)
Security Blankets 1995
Installation View, Oakville
Security Blanket: 57 Missiles (detail) 1989
wool, appliqué and quilted, 278 x 270cm (109 x 106”)
Security Blanket 1988
wool, cotton, linen, appliqué, pieced and quilted, 270 x 270cm (106 x 106”)
Security Blanket: Child's Quilt (30 missiles, 1 bomb) 1990
wool, cotton, appliqué and quilted, 212 x 155cm (84 x 60")
Small Security Blanket 1990
wool, appliqué, pieced and quilted, 212 x 164cm (83 x 65”)
Security Blanket: Wild Goose Chase (brown stripe) 1994
wool, appliqué and quilted, 198 x 157cm (78 x 62")
Funeral Blanket 1992
wool, appliqué and quilted, 280 x260cm (110 x 102")
Overkill (detail) 1992
wool, appliqué and quilted, 269 x 264cm (106 x 104")
The appliqué shapes on this quilt show the repeated silhouette of the MK-6 bomb, the first mass-produced atomic bomb.