Decorative Sunday
GEE’S BEND QUILTS
Since the 19th century, the women of Gee’s Bend in southern Alabama have created stunning, vibrant quilts. In 2002, folk art collector, historian, and curator William Arnett organized an exhibition entitled "The Quilts of Gee's Bend," which debuted at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and later travelled to a dozen other locations across the country, including our own Milwaukee Art Museum (September 27, 2003 - January 4, 2004). This exhibition brought fame to the quilts, and Arnett's foundation Souls Grown Deep Foundation continues to collect and organize exhibitions for Gee’s Bend Quilts.
The images shown here are from Gee’s Bend: The Women and Their Quilts, with essays by John Beardsley, William Arnett, Paul Arnett, and Jane Livingston, an introduction by Alvia Wardlaw, and a foreword by Peter Marzio. The book was published in 2002 by Tinwood Books, Atlanta, and published in conjunction with the 2002 exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It includes 350 color illustrations and 30 black-and-white illustrations. The dust jacket notes observe:
The women of Gee’s Bend - a small, remote, black community in Alabama - have created hundreds of quilt masterpieces dating from the early twentieth century to the present. . . . [The] quilts carry forward an old and proud tradition of textiles made for home and family. They represent only a part of the rich body of African American quilts. But they are in a league by themselves. Few other places can boast the extent of Gee’s Bends’s artistic achievement, the result of geographical isolation and an unusual degree of cultural continuity. In few places elsewhere have works been found by three and sometimes four generations of women of the same family, or works that bear witness to visual conversations among community quilting groups and lineages.
Our copy is a gift from our friend and benefactor Suzy Ettinger.
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Kelevra ranch set: portrait XV
Ciro Marzio
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Marzio Cherubini (Italian, 1800 - 1900)
picture resolution 1718 × 2107
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can't stop thinking about zhang linghe doing a tuxedo mask cosplay photoshoot for his bday
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Marzio Pellegrini, Silenzi assordanti
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Was anyone going to tell me Handel wrote Coriolanus the opera?!
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Marzio
Race: Human
Class: Gunner
Young carriage rider and resident of the continent Vir'myra specializing in transporting people between villages and cities. Due to his human heritage, Marzio has no elemental powers nor does he have the biggest physique of an average elden, so to make up for this he picks up a modified gun to take in elemental bullets to give him an extra edge in battle. That said the gun doesn't do much about his bravery, he just hopes to make a quick penny.
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