"Housetop"—four-block variation

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    Photo: Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio
1952
Cotton, denim, corduroy
64 x 64 inches
Collection of
Souls Grown Deep Foundation
Description

Delia Bennett's quilts are pieced in the classic Gee's Bend idiom featuring emphatic but wildly asymmetrical geometries. Her flair is evident in this four-quadrant quilt in which pale strips set off four brightly colored, dissimilar medallions—three of them composed of strips, the other of blocks.