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c. 1979-1983

"Words" Quilt

Sarah Mary Taylor

American, 1916 - 2000

Inspired by her aunt Pecolia Warner, who made a quilt with her first initial P, Sarah Mary Taylor designed a series of "word" quilts that play with the positive and negative shapes of letters. The text is not easily deciphered; some of the words have meaning if sounded phonetically.

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Sarah Mary Taylor, "Words" Quilt, c. 1979-1983 | Philadelphia Art Museum