Rosie Lee Tompkins

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Rosie Lee Tompkins (1936–2006) is the assumed name of a widely acclaimed Richmond, California quiltmaker. She was born Effie Mae Howard to a sharecropping family in Arkansas.^[1] Ms. Tompkins said she believed God directed her hand and her art. One of her more well-known works, "Three Sixes," involves three relatives whose birthdays include the number 6.^[1]. Tompkins' quilts have been shown at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, DC and one image is available on their web site.

'Tompkins' textile art [works] ... demolish the category' ^[2]

'These quilts are works of such distinction and devotion that they supersede established art-historical categories, forcing reviewers to retreat to that dumbfunded admiration that attracted us to art in the first place' ^[3]

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