Loretta Pettway
Four-Block Strip
1954
Scroll
Loretta Pettway
Four-Block Strip
1954
Physical Qualities
Cotton, synthetic fibers, 78 × 73 in. (198.1 × 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
2020.32
Four-block strip quilt
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase and gift, 2020; Souls Grown Deep Foundation, by 2019; William Arnett Collection of the Tinwood Alliance, Atlanta, Georgia, by 2002
Alvia Wardlaw, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, "The Quilts of Gee's Bend" September 6 – November 10, 2002. Circulated to The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 6 September–10 November 2002; the Whitney Museum, New York, 21 November 2002–9 March 2003; the Mobile Museum of Art, 16 June–31 August 2003; the Milwaukee Art Museum, 27 September 2003–4 January 2004; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 14 February–17 May 2004; the Cleveland Museum of Art, 27 June–12 September 2004; the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, 15 October 2004–2 January 2005; the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, 13 February–8 May 2005; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,1 June–21 August 2005; The Julie Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, 11 September–4 December 2005; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 25 March–18 June 2006; and the de Young Museum, San Francisco, 15 July–26 November 2006, Museum of Art, Ft Lauderdale, September 7, 2007 – January 7, 2008.
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
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
Arnett, William, Paul Arnett, and Joanne Cubbs. Gee's Bend: the architecture of the quilt. Atlanta, GA: Tinwood Books, 2006, 70.