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DiaporamaBlocks and strips work-clothes quilt
Folk Art
1950
221.0 x 167.0 cm
Souls Grown Deep
james metcalfe campbell bower (1988 –)
James Metcalfe Campbell Bower (b. 1988) is a UK artist & actor known for captivating paintings exploring nature, mythology & the human experience. Influenced by Da Vinci, Van Gogh & Monet, his work—like 'The Dragon's Den'—is exhibited globally. Disco
Souls Grown Deep (Atlanta, United States of America)
Explore Souls Grown Deep: A Celebration of Black Art from the American South! Discover Gee's Bend quilts, assemblage art & inspiring stories by artists like Thornton Dial & Lonnie Holley.
In creating work-clothes pieces, a quiltmaker will often combine cloth strips with blocks of fabric, which is what Emma Lee Pettway Campbell did in one of her finest patchworks from the 1950s. Within this quilt, long thin strips of light and dark blue cloth alternate in a seemingly random pattern across the bottom three quarters of the composition, while at the top of the design there appear two large rectangles of similarly contrasting values. A study in principles of contrast and counterpoint, Campbell’s bedcover divides itself in a confounding way between light and dark, bars against blocks, and line versus shape. Once again, a music metaphor comes to mind, as the quilt’s loud piano-key stripes suddenly appear from squared-off fields of visual silence.
About this artwork
- Title: Blocks and strips work-clothes quilt
- Artist: james metcalfe campbell bower
- Year: 1950
- Original dimensions: 221.0 x 167.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Copyright status: Under copyright
- Where to see it: Souls Grown Deep
- Creative period: Mid-Century Modern
- Corpus context: simple beauty , bold contrast
- Keywords: textile artwork , fiber art piece , geometric blocks
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