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

On View

On View - Stent Family Wing, Skyway, Gallery 407

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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