The home in 50 objects from around the world #13: Gee’s Bend quilt
Harriet Fitch Little, The Financial Times
January 2022
Very occasionally, the art establishment opens its doors to outsiders: those whose talent is not the product of formal schooling or the desire for acclaim, and whose work is judged all the more remarkable for it. So it is with the quiltmakers of a tiny community in Alabama, who rose to celebrity in the US around the turn of the century following the blockbuster touring exhibition The Quilts of Gee’s Bend.