"Stacked Bricks"

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    Photo: Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio
1928
Cotton and corduroy
81 x 69 inches
Collection of
New Orleans Museum of Art
Museum purchase and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation
Description

Nettie Young made this quilt when she was just 11 years old, using a pile of strips of cloth her mother gave her.