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DiaporamaFour-block strip quilt
1960
198.0 x 185.0 cm
Souls Grown Deep
martha jane pettway tucker (1898 – 2003)
Explore the vibrant quilts of Martha Jane Pettway Tucker (1898-2003), a pivotal Gee's Bend quilter & civil rights leader. Her repurposed work clothes became powerful art reflecting community, resilience, and American history. Featured at major museum
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.
During the early 1960s, Loretta Pettway created a captivating trilogy of quilts with vastly different and highly imaginative designs, all miraculously rendered from the same dreary batch of men’s clothing scraps.In her youth, Loretta Pettway had many Pettway quiltmaking mentors—including Missouri, Louella, Qunnie, grandmother Prissy, and stepmother Plummer T.—but she has kept to herself artistically throughout her adult life. Her earliest surviving quilts are made of everyday clothing, especially men
About this artwork
- Title: Four-block strip quilt
- Artist: martha jane pettway tucker
- Year: 1960
- Original dimensions: 198.0 x 185.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Copyright status: Under copyright
- Where to see it: Souls Grown Deep
- Color palette: Neutrals
- Main color: White
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