Artist Comments
The basket weaver sits in front of a quilt from Harriet Powers Biblical quilt created about 186. The panels in the painting represent Jonah and the Whale, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and the Baptism of Jesus. The weaver sits on a quilt adapted from one created about 1950 by Gee's Bend quilter Rachel Carey George. Gee's Bend is a small, remove African-American community in Alabama. The women of Gee's Bend have created quilts for more than 100 years. Gees Bend quilts are in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
