Blocks and strips

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    Photo: Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio
2004
Corduroy
82 x 73 inches
Collection of
The Dallas Museum of Art
Museum purchase and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation
Description

Mary Lee Bendolph explains, “Old clothes have spirit in them. They also have love. When I make a quilt, that’s what I want it to have, too, the love and the spirit of the people who wore it.”