GEE'S BEND QUILT SCARF FOOD Associate Curator of Modern and

Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum

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GEE'S BEND QUILT SCARF FOOD Associate Curator of Modern andThe brilliant design on this striking scarf recreates Housetop and Bricklayer with Bars (ca. 1955), a pattern by Gee's Bend quilter Lucy T. Pettway (American, 19212004). The extraordinary craftswomen of Gee's Bend, Alabama, have nurtured the art of quilting since the 19th century. Women enslaved on the cotton plantation established by Gee in 1816 initiated the practice out of necessity for warmth, and it burgeoned into a tradition passed down through