"Housetop" with "Bear Paw" Center Medallion

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"Housetop" with "Bear Paw" Center Medallion

Artist Estelle Witherspoon American, 1916 - 1998

Place of OriginGee's Bend Quilting Community, Boykin, Alabama, United States

Date1972

Dimensions94 1/2 × 75 in. (240 × 190.5 cm)

MediumCotton and cotton/polyester blend

ClassificationTextiles and Fiber

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation

Object number

2021.30

Not on View

Published ReferencesApplebaum, Lauren, Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change, Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, 2020, [exh. catalogue].Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change, November 21, 2020 - February 14, 2021.