Blocks and strips with medallion strip center
Polly Bennett
American, 1922–2003

Details
Title
Blocks and strips with medallion strip center
Artist/Maker
Polly Bennett (American, 1922–2003)
Date
2001
Medium
Cotton and cotton/polyester blend
Dimensions
81 × 99 inches
Credit
Museum purchase, and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation from the William S. Arnett Collection
Accession #
2017.35
Learning from and playing off each other’s design ideas, the women of Gee’s Bend—a community nestled in a tight crook of the Alabama River in Boykin, Alabama—developed a spirited and inventive quilting practice that fuses tradition with individual inspiration. Polly Bennett learned to quilt as a child but created this quilt at the age of eighty using many strips of fabric patterned with floral designs.
Image Copyright
© Polly Bennett Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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