Patchwork Quilt

Romare Bearden · 1970

Before you is Patchwork Quilt, made by Bearden in nineteen seventy from cut and pasted fabrics, paper and a gelatin silver print, with acrylic on board. The reclining figure is assembled the way a quilt is — from scraps that keep their own identity inside the whole.

Medium Cut-and-pasted fabrics, paper, and gelatin silver print with acrylic on board · Dimensions 35 3/4 x 47 7/8" (90.9 x 121.6 cm) · Credit Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 416: Carolina Morning

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin, Great Indian Bazaar, Atlantic City, Merz Picture 32 A. The Cherry Picture (Merzbild 32 A. Das Kirschbild), L'Abbatoire No. VI (The Slaughterhouse No. VI), Untitled from Reason of Sleep

More by Romare Bearden here: Prevalence of Ritual/Conjur Woman No. 1, Music on the Gallery, He Is Arisen, Carolina Morning, Carolina Blue, The Baptism