Blanket Stories: Transportation Object, Generous Ones, Trek

A sculpture commissioned for the Haub Family Galleries at the Tacoma Art Museum

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Charlotte Chalker
Tacoma, WA
Tags
Marriage, Travel

This car robe was given to Roy and me as a wedding gift in 1956. It has traveled many thousand miles in our various vehicles to many states, Mexico and Canada. It has served as a table cloth for traveling picnics, keeping small people warm and serving as a pillow for the relief driver.