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Nell Hall Williams

Blocks and Strips

1970

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Nell Hall Williams

Blocks and Strips

1970

Physical Qualities Cotton, synthetic fibers, 83 × 73 in. (210.8 × 185.4 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation; and purchase with exchange funds from the Pearlstone Family Fund and partial gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Object Number 2020.35
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase and gift, 2020; Souls Grown Deep Foundation, by 2019
Brittany Luberda and Stella Hendricks, BMA, "She Knew Where She Was Going: Gee's Bend Quilts and Civil Rights," March 10, 2021 - August 1, 2021

Artist

Nell Hall Williams

1932–2020

born Alberta, AL 1933; died Camden, AL 2021
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