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University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2020. Her big velvet quilts — the exultant heart of the show — are most often disrupted by dramatic shifts in color and scale. While works like this one relate to Pop Art, others had the power of abstraction. Rosie Lee Tompkins. Previous page. “Drawing on the rich history of quilting in the African American community, Tompkins’s formally and technically innovative work also defies conventions and expectations. In doing so, he contributed to the national awareness of quilts of all kinds by African-Americans, which have been increasingly studied and exhibited since around 1980, thanks to the combined influences of the civil rights movement, feminism and multiculturalism. Print length. Likewise. But the “self-taught” or “outsider” labels were inaccurate for quilters. Rosie Lee Tompkins at her home in Richmond, Calif., 1997. In addition, the fabrics — variously elegant, every day and ersatz — bring a lot with them, not just color and texture, but also manufacturing techniques and social connotations. As a child in rural Arkansas, she learned the southern African American quilting tradition from her mother. In memory the show became a jubilant fugue of small squares of velvet in deep gemstone hues, dancing with not much apparent order yet impeccably arranged for full effect. After a final decade that was a nearly vertical trajectory, hurtling toward art world fame, Rosie Lee Tompkins died suddenly, at 70, in December 2006, in her home. Please note that this is an extensive article. She worked in several styles and all kinds of fabrics, using velvets — printed, panne, crushed — to gorgeous effect, in ways that rivaled oil paint. Ohr’s precariously thin-walled vessels, unlikely shapes and inspired glazing shared a kind of bravura with Tompkins’s works. This past June, Roberta Smith wrote an intensive article on Tompkins and the show. Anthony Meier Fine Arts will present a solo exhibition of never-before-seen works by renowned American artist Rosie Lee Tompkins(1936–2006), (Others, like Henry Darger and James Castle, were white.) On February 19th, 2020, a massive retrospective of nearly seventy works by Rosie Lee Tompkins (1936-2006), an accomplished African-American quilt artist, opened at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) . She studied nursing, and for the next two decades or so worked in convalescent homes, a job she is said to have loved. Sometimes the embroidery reflected her daily Bible reading, including the Gospels, as did her addition of appliqué crosses. Here a quilt top, folded in half, is held by bulldog clips fastened to the molding. In photographs, Rosie Lee looks tall, of regal posture. See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. “As an artist, Tompkins may have taken improvisation further than other quilters. The final count of the Eli Leon Bequest was 3,100 quilts by over 400 artists. Here are feelings of awe, elation, and sublimity; here is an absolute mastery of color, texture and composition; here is inventiveness and originality so palpable and intense that each work seems like a new and total risk, a risk so extreme that only utter faith in the power of the creative spirit could have engendered it. Rosie Lee Tompkins, extraordinary quilter we need to know. [15] Family included her mother; several children and stepchildren; and many siblings, grandchildren and great-grandchildren who survived her. 1974, polyester double knit, acrylic yarn, crepe print, synthetic sheer polyester tablecloth, muslin, shot cotton, nylon-spandex kit, acrylic sweater knit, poly-cotton linen blend, polyester crepe, polyester woven cotton Christmas print, cotton thread, backed with cotton advertising print, 62 1/4 × 34 3/4". Plus, we’ve included some related hands-on art activities! To raise money for his care, Ms. Hurth oversaw multiple yard sales for the contents of his house — except the quilts. The museum’s website currently offers a robust online display and 70-minute virtual tour. This made them canon-busting, and implicitly subversive. 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His 1987 show, “Who’d a Thought It: Improvisation in African-American Quiltmaking,” included a catalog essay by the well-known Africanist Robert Ferris Thompson alongside his own. Berkeley Art Museum. Though it began with Effie Mae Martin, it came to include a small, nervous collector named Eli Leon, who met her in 1985, fell in love with her quilts and those of many other African-American creators in and around Richmond — and devoted half his life to acquiring and studying, exhibiting and writing about their work. [2][3], Tompkins, who had helped her mother make quilts as a child, began to quilt seriously about 1980, while making a living as a practical nurse. Image: Rosie Lee Tompkins, Untitled, 1970s, with embroidered scripture added mid-1980s; quilted by Irene Bankhead, 1997. ‘Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective’ — By Elaine Y. Yau, Lawrence Rinder and Horace Ballard (University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive): The catalog to the first retrospective of the quilt artist Rosie Lee Tompkins (1936-2006) is essential to familiarity with the achievements of superlative 20th-century artists who never set foot in the art world. Above and to the right a circle of twisted bands and leaves suggests both a crown of thorns and a laurel wreath. Tompkins was intensely private. Roberta Smith, the co-chief art critic, regularly reviews museum exhibitions, art fairs and gallery shows in New York, North America and abroad. R osie Lee Tompkins , born Effie Mae Martin in Gould, Arkansas in 1936, grew up picking cotton alongside her fourteen siblings and half-siblings. More than 500 works by Tompkins reside at the Berkeley Art Museum. [16], Tompkins was found dead at her home in Richmond, California on Friday December 1, 2006. [8], Works pieced by Tompkins include Tents of Armageddon Four Patch (1986),[9] Three Sixes (1987), Half-Squares Put-Together (1988), Half-Squares Medallion (1986), Half-squares Four-patch (1986), and Put Together with Letter "F" (1985). Rosie Lee Tompkins Anthony Meier Fine Arts Rosie Lee Tompkins, Untitled, ca. "[6], Critics were equal in their praise: "Tompkins' textile art [works] ... demolish the category";[7] "These quilts are works of such distinction and devotion that they supersede established art-historical categories, forcing reviewers to retreat to that dumbfounded admiration that attracted us to art in the first place". Bing, Alison (November 2003). Each had survived a nervous breakdown or two; Rosie Lee’s, coming sometime in the late ’70s, deepened the spirituality and intensity of her work, making it more than ever a haven from the world. Tompkins elicits emotion by stripping away casual relationships in favor of intensity. Organized by Lawrence Rinder, the museum’s chief curator, it helped boost her reputation beyond the quilt world centered in and around San Francisco. Made from a family of velvets, it resembles Op-Art, only softer, less mechanical and altogether more appealing. She worked with the convention of the quilt block but with enormous variation in size, free distortions of shape and vivid color contrasts that have been described as "geometric anarchy" and "riotous mosaics. "[14][1], She was married and divorced twice. She all but abandoned pattern for an inspired randomness with an emphasis on serial disruptions that constantly divert or startle the eye — like the badge of a California prison guard sewn to an otherwise conventional crazy quilt. Eli Leon in the annex he built at his Oakland cottage for his quilts. Over the years, I would be repeatedly blown away by work that was at once rigorous and inclusive. They were also included in the 2002 Biennial of the Whitney Museum of American Art and have been shown at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC; one image is available on their web site. [4] Leon featured her work on the cover of the catalog for an exhibition he organized, Who'd A Thought It: Improvisation in African-American Quiltmaking, which debuted at the San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum in 1987 and traveled for several years. She signed nearly everything with her real name, Effie, or some combination of Effie Mae Martin Howard, and often added her nearly palindromic date of birth, 9.6.36, or the birth dates of her sons, her parents and other relatives she wanted to honor. The textile of hers that jumped out at Mr. Rinder is impressive even in photographs. At the time of the show, she was 61 and living in nearby Richmond, Calif., just north of Berkeley. She even had a printed business card that offered “Crazy Quilts and Pillows All Sizes.” By the late 1970s, according to the current exhibition’s catalog, she was earning as much as $400 a weekend from sales and was able to quit her nursing job. Her abstract, improvisational compositions often had a personal significance: one of her more well-known works, "Three Sixes," involves three relatives whose birthdays include the number 6. Was Tompkins aware of this possible reading? The first work I ever saw by Rosie Lee Tompkins was in an exhibition titled Showing Up , at the Richmond Art Center, in a town just north of Berkeley, California. Our quilts of today are stand-alone pieces of art, but should not detract from the work of an artist such as Rosie Lee Thompkins. The area was also paradise for quilt collectors, one of whom was Eli, born in the Bronx in 1935 and trained as a psychologist, whose collecting instincts verged on hoarding. The organizers’ excellent essays included Mr. Rinder vividly relating Tompkins’s use of improvisation to the innovations of Ornette Coleman and his “no-hold-barred free-jazz sensibility.” (Although he notes that she was an opera fan who listened to disco while doing her work.). Occasionally she stitched the addresses of the places she had lived, and Eli’s home. He lived frugally in a small bungalow in Oakland that was eventually packed to its rafters with quilts, except for his dining room and kitchen. The quilter felt she was an instrument of God and saw her work as an expression of her faith and his designs. I need help,” his thin reedy voice said. They closed in one world and will reopen in a very different one, and the relevance of “Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective” has only expanded in the hiatus. Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective, now on display at BAMPFA in Berkeley, marks the largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever presented of … The New York Times named the catalog one of the Best Art Books of 2020. This surface action, I discovered, reflected her constant improvisation: Tompkins began by cutting her squares (or triangles or bars) freehand, never measuring or using a template, and intuitively changed the colors, shapes and size of her fabric fragments, making her compositions seem to expand or contract. She was reclusive and fiercely protective of her privacy and the right to privacy of family. Then, in 2013, Eli began to leave me urgent phone messages: “You have to come out here. This exhibition, again organized by Mr. Rinder, the museum’s director until March, with Elaine Y. Yau, a postdoctoral curatorial fellow, marks the end of a 35-year saga. But within a year he began building a résumé of articles, exhibitions and lectures about the importance of African-American quilts as well as their frequent emphasis on improvisation and their links to African textiles. That 1997 Berkeley show was my first Rosie Lee Tompkins moment. Eli died on March 6, 2018, at 82, in an assisted-living home. Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective marks the first exhibition at BAMPFA of Tompkins’s work since this transformative bequest, and it includes dozens of quilts that have never been exhibited previously. You could hear it in the reviews of the 2002 Whitney Biennial, which Mr. Rinder organized during his stint there as curator of contemporary art. Eli’s first came early, after his wife of five years left him. Their unbridled colors, irregular shapes and nearly reckless range of textiles telegraphed a tremendous energy and the implacable ambition, and confidence, of great art. It seemed like a map of the melting pot of American culture and politics. Spread out in the museum’s sky-lighted galleries, the work’s beauty is more insistent than ever. They were the jewels in the crown of a collection of African-American quilts that would eventually number in the thousands. “I hope they spread a lot of love.”. With this visit, I joined a scattered group of individuals who had been seduced by Eli’s dedication but mainly by his collection, and were now concerned for its fate. Rosie Lee Tompkins, 70, whose quilts hung in museums, graced the pages of art magazines and left awestruck critics scrambling to describe them, died Dec. 1 at her home in Richmond, Calif. Anthony Meier Fine Arts will present a solo exhibition of never-before-seen works by renowned American artist Rosie Lee Tompkins(1936–2006), considered one of … In one, several blocks of stark black and white triangles break through an expanse of rich colors like icebergs in a dark sea. She was born Effie Mae Martin in rural Gould, Ark., on Sept. 9, 1936. Tompkins seems to have been an artist of singular greatness, but who knows what further revelations — including the upcoming survey of the Eli Leon Bequest — are in store. [12][13] Drawing from the Eli Leon Collection, BAMPFA organized the exhibit Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective (opened February 19, 2020; closed due to COVID-19 shut-down; re-opens September through December 20, 2020); The New York Times called it "a triumphal retrospective" that "confirms her standing as one of the great American artists–transcending craft, challenging painting and reshaping the canon. The New York Times called her "one of the great American artists," and her work "one of the century’s major artistic accomplishments." Other women finished the quilts by adding a layer of wadding and the back, a standard practice. I visited him that fall, to be stunned all over again when Eli and Jenny Hurth — his exemplary friend, assistant, fellow quilt-lover and, after 2011, his most constant caregiver — unveiled a succession of Tompkins velvets, clipping them to the molding above the double doors between his living and dining rooms. Rosie Lee Tompkins at BAMPFA. Rosie Lee Tompkins’s version of what Eli Leon called “flexible patterning” may have been more extreme than anyone else’s. More wall-hanging or even street mural than quilt, this work from around 1996 juxtaposes images of black athletes and political leaders with crosses made of silk men’s ties to evoke the complexities of succeeding while black in America. Rosie Lee Tompkins with one of her quilts (image courtesy BAMPFA) Even the pseudonym “Tompkins” was adopted to afford Howard privacy. I listened as Eli spoke about Tompkins, her life and work, and also his. In a gallery in “Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective” at the Berkeley Art Museum, a quilt made mostly of double knit polyester (far left) holds its own against a quilt with a similar “house” motif in various kinds of velvet. During this time she married and divorced Ellis Howard, raised five children and stepchildren and started to make quilts to sell at the area’s many flea markets, along with other wares. Rosie Lee Tompkins was a pseudonym, I would learn, adopted by a fiercely private, deeply religious woman, who as her work received more and more attention, was … Then, several months later, came the amazing news: Eli had bequeathed his entire quilt collection to the Berkeley Art Museum, a tribute to the early advocacy of Mr. Rinder. Her special areas of interest include ceramics textiles, folk and outsider art, design and video art. Mr. Rinder’s Rosie Lee Tompkins conversion took place in a show of black and white quilts by African-Americans that Eli organized in 1996 at the Richmond Art Center. In Arkansas he visited Rosie Lee’s mother, Sadie Lee Dale, and bought one of her quilts, too. Do you think that polyester double knit might look cheap used in a quilt? Effie Mae Martin had grown up as her mother’s apprentice in a kind of atelier: a small town full of female friends and relatives who quilted, the older ones showing and telling the younger ones how it was done. They both possessed an extraordinary skill and idiosyncratic abandon that creates a new sense of the possibilities of the hand, visual wit and beauty in any medium. Laverne Brackens, a well-known fourth-generation quilter in Texas, runs a close second, with around 300 quilts in the collection. Rosie Lee Tompkins was a pseudonym, I would learn, adopted by a fiercely private, deeply religious woman, who as her work received more and more attention, was almost never photographed or interviewed. “If people like my work,” she once told Eli, “that means the love of Jesus Christ is still shining through what I’m doing.”. One of Tompkins’s most spectacular velvets is edged with these framed mini-quilts, which surround an enormous field of blue velvets that creates a kind of van Gogh night sky; they can read as small painted side panels on an altarpiece. She was born Effie Mae Martin in rural Gould, Ark., on Sept. 9, 1936. Eli Leon’s dining room in 2013 contained all manner of folk art collectibles, especially if they were a shade of jade green. It resembles a wall hung with paintings. @robertasmithnyt, Grid image credits: UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Eli Leon Bequest; Sharon Risedorph and Ben Blackwell. His promotional efforts, however, did not involve much selling: Eli was almost congenitally incapable of parting with any of his quilts, or anything else, that he accumulated. "[1] More than 500 works by Tompkins reside at the Berkeley Art Museum. In 1997 I walked into the Berkeley Art Museum to be greeted by a staggering sight: an array of some 20 quilts unlike any I had ever seen. The New York Times on Saturday posted a beautiful article on Rosie Lee Tompkins, the California quilter … One of her narrative works was 14 feet across, the size of small billboard. Some feature abutting triangles that suggest desert landscapes and pyramids, perhaps the Flight into Egypt. As with Ohr, Tompkins’s work triggered a kind of joy on first encounter. It has the looseness of a drawing, but the selvage edges give the crosses a hint of solidity and raking light. 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