Gallery 150/151, first floor (Morgan Galleries)
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Gallery 150/151, first floor (Morgan Galleries)
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The women of Gee’s Bend, a small rural Black community in Alabama of about seven hundred residents, have been creating bold, visually distinctive quilts since at least the 1920s.
Loretta Pettway created this quilt using textiles upcycled from everyday clothing worn by her family and friends. Her choice of pattern, Roman Stripes (also referred to locally as a "crazy quilt"), was inspired by a quilt that her stepmother, Plummer T. Pettway, made a few years earlier.
Gallery 150/151, first floor (Morgan Galleries)
| Title: | Roman Stripes Variation Quilt |
| Date: | 1970 |
| Artist: | Loretta Pettway (American, born 1942) |
| Medium: | Pieced cotton twill, denim twill, plaid cotton/polyester blend twill, and synthetic knit |
| Dimensions: | 7 feet 2 inches × 70 3/4 inches (218.4 × 179.7 cm) |
| Classification: | Textiles |
| Credit Line: | Purchased with the Phoebe W. Haas Fund for Costume and Textiles, and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation from the William S. Arnett Collection, 2017 |
| Accession Number: | 2017-229-7 |
| Geography: | Made in Gee's Bend, Boykin, Wilcox, Alabama, United States, North and Central America |
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Gallery 150/151, first floor (Morgan Galleries)
Main Building