Rosie Lee Tompkins

Biography

Rosie Lee Tompkins (1936–2006) is the art pseudonym of Effie Mae Martin Howard, a widely acclaimed African-American quiltmaker and fiber artist of Richmond, California. The Los Angeles Times described her work as "stunning, improvisational quilts that fuse organic form with vivid, patterned geometry to create abstract narratives of individual devotion." Later, The New York Times called her "one of the great American artists," and her work "one of the century’s major artistic accomplishments." More than 500 works by Tompkins reside at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

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