The Ella King Torrey Collection of African American Quilts and other Recent Quilt Acquisitions is a collection of African American quilts that were procured from 1980 to 1983 by Ella King Torrey during her fieldwork with art historian Maude Southwell Wahlman.
The collection of 13 quilts includes a hand quilt by Mississippi quilter
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 ...
that was made for the film ''
The Color Purple'' as well as an appliquéd word quilt of hers. Two of the collection's quilts are by Taylor's mother,
Pearlie Posey (1894–1984). The collection also includes the "Log Cabin" quilt by Georgia quilter
Arester Earl, which Ella King Torrey exhibited in her dining room.
See also
*
The Quilts of Gee's Bend
References
Further reading
*''Quilt Stories: The Ella King Torrey Collection of African American Quilts and Other Recent Quilt Acquisitions'' (2008)
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 ...
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