About This Artwork

Designed and executed by Gearldine Westbrook
American, born 1919
United States, Alabama, Gee's Bend

Quilt Entitled "Strips", 1980s

Pieced cotton, wool, polyester, silk, nylon, rayon, acrylic, and cellulose acetate, plain weaves, plain weave derived float weaves, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut voided pile, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; twill weaves, twill weave with self-patterning ground weft floats; machine single and double knits and machine knot with supplementary cut pile; some printed; pieced; edged with cotton, plain weave, printed; backed with polyester, plain weave; printed
228 x 195.7 cm (89 3/4 x 77 in.)
Robert Allerton Endowment, 2002.383

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 265, "A Century of Collecting: African American Art in The Art Institute of Chicago," January 31, 2003–May 19, 2003

Publication History

Beardsley, John et al. Gee’s Bend: The Women and Their Quilts. Atlanta: Tinwood Books, 2002. p. 391.