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"Bricklayer" variation

Qunnie Pettway
  • QP - "Bricklayer" variation - Master Image

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    Photo: Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio
1975
Corduroy
83 x 74 inches
Collection of
New Orleans Museum of Art
Museum purchase and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation
Description

Qunnie's quilt from 1975 is constructed out of narrow strips of corduroy discards from the Freedom Quilting Bee. Its subtle gradations in color and stepped diagonals are symbolic of a moment in Gee’s Bend when the hard life of farming was coming to an end, and other alternatives, however meager, were presenting themselves.