c. 1950
One Patch Quilt
Magdalene WilsonAmerican, 1898 - 2001
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.
Magdalene Wilson gave extra punch to the One-Patch, one of the simplest quilt patterns of repeating single squares, by varying the size of the squares and connecting strips and mapping out large sections with color and texture.
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