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Two-sided quilt: Rectangular blocks & "Log Cabin" variation (local name: "Bricklayer")

Loretta Pettway
  • Loretta Pettway - Rectangular blocks - Master Image

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    Photo: Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio
  • Loretta Pettway - "Log Cabin" variation (local name: "Bricklayer") - Master Image

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    Photo: Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio
c. 1975
Corduroy
94 x 69 inches
Collection of
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund and partial gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation
Description

In the mid-1970s, Loretta was given five colors of corduroy scraps from the Freedom Quilting Bee. Using all five, she produced a two-sided quilt, one side a standard “Housetop,” the other a single “Bricklayer” block. With more of the same corduroy, she created this imaginative orange and brown abstraction of fragmented “Bricklayer” elements.