Pearlie Posey (1894-1984) was an American quilt artist and mother of

Sarah Mary Taylor Sarah Mary Taylor (August 12, 1916 – 2000) was an African American quiltmaker from Mississippi whose work attracted interest in the 1970s. Life Sarah Mary Taylor was born on August 12, 1916 in Anding, Mississippi. She learned quilting from he ...

. She is known for her appliquéd quilts.

Biography

Posey was born in 1894. She taught her quilting technique to her daughter Sarah Mary Taylor and eventually created templates for Taylor's quilts. Her work is in the collection of the

Philadelphia Museum of Art The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMoA) is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The main museum building was completed in 1928 on Fairmount, a hill located at the northwest end of the Benjamin Fr ...

and the American Folk Art Museum. Her work was included in the 2008-2009 traveling exhibition entitled ''Ancestry & Innovation: African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum'' presented by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. She was included in the 2009 exhibition ''Quilt Stories: The Ella King Torrey Collection of African American Quilts and Other Recent Quilt Acquisitions'' at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Posey died in 1984.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Posey, Pearlie 1894 births 1984 deaths 20th-century African-American women 20th-century African-American artists Quilters