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Four-block strip quilt (detail), c. 1960

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Loretta Pettway (b. 1942), Four-block strip quilt (detail), c. 1960

Cotton twill and synthetic material (men's clothing), 78 x 73 in.; Baltimore Museum of Art, Museum purchase and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation

In a purely aesthetic sense, the more simplified constructions of the work-clothes quilts provided a blank canvas for experiments with a range of improvisational strategies, including sudden shifts in patterning, broken borders, irregular shapes, asymmetry, syncopation, and dissonant juxtapositions of prints and colors. During the early 1960s, Loretta Pettway created a captivating trilogy of quilts with vastly different and highly imaginative designs, all miraculously rendered from the same dreary batch of men’s clothing scraps.

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Here the focus is on the inherent design elements and abstract imagery in the quilts rather than as finished objects.

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