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Artist: Aolar Carson Mosely

Date: 1955

Size: 191 x 211 cm

Museum: Souls Grown Deep (Atlanta, United States)

Technique: Cotton

Born in 1912, Aolar Carson Mosely was one of eight children in the Gee’s Bend family of Elizabeth Pettway Carson and Sim Carson. At a young age, she was taught to quilt by her mother. Unlike many of her neighbors, she used a machine that had been purchased by her father.