Center medallion with cornerstones – (Martha Jane Pettway Tucker) Previous Next


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Date: 1920

Size: 170 x 182 cm

Museum: Souls Grown Deep (Atlanta, United States)

Technique: Cotton

Martha Jane Pettway created a number of “Housetop” quilts in the 1920s and 1930s using old clothes. In one bedcover, a battalion of brilliant red squares moves in diagonal lines from each of the quilt’s four corners to meet in the center.During the Great Depression, government representatives learned that Gee

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