Four-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 (Атланта, Соединённые Штаты Америки)
Откройте Souls Grown Deep: торжество черного искусства американского Юга! Познакомьтесь с квилтами Ги-Бенд, искусством ассамбляжа и вдохновляющими историями таких художников, как Торнтон Диал и Лонни Холли.
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
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- Название: Four-block strip quilt
- Художник: martha jane pettway tucker
- Год: 1960
- Размер оригинала: 198.0 x 185.0 cm
- Формат: Portrait
- Правовой статус: Объект авторского права
- Местонахождение: Souls Grown Deep
- Цветовая палитра: Neutrals
- Основной цвет: White