3.4.3: Rita Mae Pettway, Housetop (fractured medallion variation)

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    by VALERIE CASSEL OLIVER, VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS and DR. BETH HARRIS

    Video \(\PageIndex{1}\): Rita Mae Pettway, Housetop (fractured medallion variation), 1977, corduroy, 80 x 76 inches (Virginia Museum of Fine Art). A conversation with Valerie Cassell Oliver, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and Beth Harris.

    Additional resources

    The quilting tradition at Gee’s Bend from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

    Gee’s Bend from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation

    Gee’s Bend in the Library of Congress

    This page titled 3.4.3: Rita Mae Pettway, Housetop (fractured medallion variation) was last modified on Sat, 14 Jan 2023 03:03:07 GMT and is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Dr. Beth Harris, "Gee’s Bend, quilting over generations," in Smarthistory, June 5, 2022, accessed January 13, 2023, https://smarthistory.org/gees-bend-quilting-over-generations/..