Four-block strip quilt
1960
198.0 x 185.0 cm
Souls Grown Deep
Martha Jane Pettway Tucker (1898 – 2003)
Explora los vibrantes quilts de Martha Jane Pettway Tucker (1898-2003), una artista clave del grupo Gee’s Bend y líder por los derechos civiles. Sus prendas laborales reutilizadas reflejan arte comunitario, resistencia e historia estadounidense.
Souls Grown Deep (Atlanta, Estados Unidos de América)
Descubre Souls Grown Deep: Museo dedicado al arte negro del Sur EEUU. Admira impresionantes colecciones de quilts Gee's Bend y esculturas de artistas como Thornton Dial. Historia y cultura afroamericana.
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
Sobre esta obra
- Título: Four-block strip quilt
- Artista: Martha Jane Pettway Tucker
- Año: 1960
- Dimensiones originales: 198.0 x 185.0 cm
- Formato: Portrait
- Estado de derechos de autor: Bajo derechos de autor
- Ubicación: Souls Grown Deep
- Paleta de colores: Neutrals
- Color predominante: White