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 (Atlanta, Sjedinjene Američke Države)
Istražite Souls Grown Deep: proslavu crne umetnosti američkog Juga! Otkrijte kviltove iz Gee's Bend-a, assemblage umetnost i inspirativne priče umetnika kao što su Thornton Dial i 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
O ovom umetničkom delu
- Naslov: Four-block strip quilt
- Umetnik: martha jane pettway tucker
- Godina: 1960
- Prvobitne dimenzije: 198.0 x 185.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Status autorskih prava: Zaštićeno autorskim pravima
- Mesto izlaganja: Souls Grown Deep
- Paleta boja: Neutrals
- Dominantna boja: White