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STRIP BARS WOOL ANTIQUE QUILT, five panels

 STRIP BARS WOOL ANTIQUE QUILT, five panels
   

 



Looks like a Sean Scully painting (a contemporary abstract artist whose work sells in the hundreds of thousands) but predates by decades the artist's experiments with varied rectangles of color. If you seek contemporary art for the wall, this is a quilt to choose; it transcends the concept of pieced quilt to become a work of textile art that is visually arresting. Pieced of narrow strips of wool suiting (perhaps the cut- off trouser cuffs from a tailor shop (!?) it is an elegant, powerful image. Collected in Tennesee

c. mid 20th c Tennessee origin wool