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Gee's Bend quilt, "Housetop" variation with "Postage Stamp" center row
about 1965
2007.6
Not currently on view
Artwork Details
75 x 78-1/2 in.
Accession NumberPurchased with funds provided by Dana and Marc Katz
CopyrightIrene Williams, Gee's Bend, Alabama. From the collection of the Tinwood Alliance; purchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art (2007).
One of the quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, Irene Williams reveals a distinctive individual style in quilts that stretch the boundaries of traditional patterns and compositions. In this quilt she was inspired by the endless design possibilities of the “Housetop” pattern, which consists of squares within squares, and the “Postage Stamp” pattern, composed of small squares.
“When I got married, I started making quilts. I just put stuff together. I didn’t do the best I could, because in them years I didn’t have nothing but what little we got to make quilts and things out of.”
— Irene Williams
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Sugar: Commodity and Confection in Art
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
February 18, 2022 - August 21, 2022
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