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The women of Gee’s Bend, a small rural Black community in Alabama of about seven hundred residents, have been creating bold, visually distinctive quilts since at least the 1920s.
Magdalene Wilson gave extra punch to the One-Patch, one of the simplest quilt patterns of repeating single squares, by varying the size of the squares and connecting strips and mapping out large sections with color and texture.
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| Title: | One Patch Quilt |
| Date: | c. 1950 |
| Artist: | Magdalene Wilson (American, 1898–2001) |
| Medium: | Pieced solid and printed cotton plain weave, wool twill, wool and synthetic plain weave, printed cotton corduroy, and cotton seersucker |
| Dimensions: | 6 feet 10 inches × 6 feet 2 inches (208.3 × 188 cm) |
| Classification: | Textiles |
| Credit Line: | Purchased with the Joseph E. Temple Fund, and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation from the William S. Arnett Collection, 2017 |
| Accession Number: | 2017-229-13 |
| Geography: | Made in Gee's Bend, Boykin, Wilcox, Alabama, United States, North and Central America |
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