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"Housetop" variation

Irene Williams
  • IW - "Housetop" variation - Master Image

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    Photo: Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio
  • 2008 DNC Poster

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c. 1975
Cotton
89 x 78 inches
Collection of
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Museum purchase and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation
Description

Irene Williams made several quilts that contain fabric printed with the word "vote." Wilcox County had been the scene of fierce voting-rights struggles in the 1960s.