Artist: Ronald Lockett
Date: 1997
Size: 129 x 123 cm
Museum: Souls Grown Deep (Atlanta, United States)
Technique: Enamel
In this quilt-like work Lockett memorializes Sarah Lockett, his neighbor and great-grandmother, who had raised three generations of Locketts and Dials, including Thornton Dial. In 1995, as Sarah’s health began to fail, Ronald Lockett and Thornton Dial became increasingly interested in quilts. She had been a quilter, and now both men were beginning to sift through her effects. Many of her quilts, like the vast majority of African American quilts, were patternless improvisations of fabric blocks, more like quilt
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