Rosie Lee Tompkins

Rosie Lee Tompkins is the art pseudonym of Effie Mae Martin Howard, a widely acclaimed African American quiltmaker and fiber artist of Richmond, California, who lived from 1936 to 2006. 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, and The New York Times called her one of the great American artists. More than five hundred of her works reside at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/