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%C2%A9 Nellie Mae Abrams %2F Artists Rights Society %28ARS%29%2C New York
"Housetop" quilt, c. 1970
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The Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Fund and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation from the William S. Arnett Collectionexpand_more 2019.16.3
On View in Gallery 303expand_more
Nellie Mae Abrams was born in 1946 in Gee’s Bend. She and her mother developed
their distinctive quilting styles in a broader community of artists who lived and worked in
Gee’s Bend, a rural community in Alabama now known for its inventive quilting style.
Nellie Mae Abrams started her “Housetop” quilt with a solid block of blue fabric. She joined
yellow strips of fabric on two sides of the square, and continued adding strips around that
original block until she declared the quilt complete. The loose pattern of dancing squares
made room for unexpected compositional choices, like the red striped cloth in the border of this quilt.
