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The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles
199620th century
22 in. x 29 1/4 in. (55.88 cm x 74.3 cm)
Faith Ringgold, American, b. 1930
Object Type:
Prints
Creation Place:
North America, United States
Medium and Support:
6-color lithograph on paper
Credit Line:
Carleton College Art Collection
Accession Number:
1998.151
Faith Ringgold is a prominent African-American woman artist, who like Schapiro, often takes the traditionally "feminine" quilt as format for art-making. This print refers to quilt-making and female community. The Sunflower Quilting Bee presents a fabled moment in art history, revised to include not only women but African-American women. In Ringgold’s artistic universe, the archetypal "great artist" Vincent Van Gogh was inspired to his greatest works, the Sunflower paintings, by members of the "Sunflower Quilters Society of America." Their radiant sunflower quilt, stitched in honor of such African-American women leaders as Sojourner Truth, Mary McLeod Bethune, Ida B. Wells and Rosa Parks, could serve as a banner in their campaign for positive social change.
What do van Gogh and a group of female African-American quilters have in common? In depicting them together, Faith Ringgold suggests that both the quilters, who are prominent African American historical figures, and the white male “genius” should be included in the story of art history.
Ringgold created Sunflower Quilters’ Society of America for the College Art Association, This print is one of several donated by Marilyn Stokstad ’55, a Professor of Art History at Kansas State University and author of a popular introductory art history text.
Text written for New Art, New Ideas: Students Curate the Collection, March 10, 2006
What do van Gogh and a group of female African-American quilters have in common? In depicting them together, Faith Ringgold suggests that both the quilters, who are prominent African American historical figures, and the white male “genius” should be included in the story of art history.
Ringgold created Sunflower Quilters’ Society of America for the College Art Association, This print is one of several donated by Marilyn Stokstad ’55, a Professor of Art History at Kansas State University and author of a popular introductory art history text.
Text written for New Art, New Ideas: Students Curate the Collection, March 10, 2006
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20th Century,
American*,
color lithographs*,
color lithography*,
Contemporary*,
lithographs*,
lithography*,
paper (fiber product)*,
prints (visual works)*
- 20th Century
- American - Refers to the context of or associated specifically with the modern political entity of the United States of America.
- color lithographs - Lithographs printed in several colors.
- color lithography - Printing by lithography using a separate stone or plate for each color.
- Contemporary - Refers to painting, sculpture, graphic arts, and architecture dating from the recent past and present. It differs from modern art in that the term 'contemporary art' does not carry the implication of a non-traditional style, but instead refers only to the time period in which the work was created. 'Modern' and 'contemporary' are inherently fluid terms. The term 'contemporary' is sometimes more narrowly used to refer to art from ca. 1960 or 1970 up to the present.
- lithographs - Prints made using the process of lithography, which is a planographic printing process in which a design is deposited on the stone or plate with a greasy substance which will accept ink.
- lithography - Planographic printing process in which a design is deposited on the stone or plate with a greasy substance and the surface is chemically treated to accept ink only in the greasy areas.
- paper (fiber product) - Refers generally to all types of matted or felted sheets or webs of fiber formed and dried on a fine screen from a pulpy water suspension. The fibers may be animal, such as hair, silk or wool, or mineral, such as asbestos, or synthetic. However most paper is made from cellulosic plant fiber, such as from wood pulp, grass, cotton, linen, and straw.
- prints (visual works) - Pictorial works produced by transferring images by means of a matrix such as a plate, block, or screen, using any of various printing processes. When emphasizing the individual printed image, use "impressions." Avoid the controversial expression "original prints," except in reference to discussions of the expression's use. If prints are neither "reproductive prints" nor "popular prints," use just "prints." With regard to photographs, see "photographic prints"; for types of reproductions of technical drawings and documents, see terms found under "reprographic copies."
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