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Blocks and strips work-clothes quilt
Andrea Williams1991
Souls Grown Deep
Atlanta, United States
In 1991, Andrea Williams, who was eighteen at the time, appropriated Loretta Pettway’s work-clothes palette but divided the surface vertically so that muted denim strips in a narrow column function like chords, underscored by the basso profundo of the dark fabric that predominates.
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Details
- Title: Blocks and strips work-clothes quilt
- Creator: Andrea Williams
- Creator Lifespan: b. 1973
- Creator Nationality: American
- Creator Gender: Female
- Date Created: 1991
- Location Created: Boykin, Alabama
- Physical Dimensions: 90 x 108 in. (229 x 274 cm)
- Subject Keywords: Gee's Bend, Work-clothes quilt, Black art, African American art
- Type: Quilt
- Original Source: Philadelphia Museum of Art Museum purchase and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation
- Rights: © Andrea Williams / Photo: Stephen Pitkin, Pitkin Studio
- External Link: https://www.soulsgrowndeep.org/artist/andrea-williams
- Medium: Cotton, denim, twill
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