“Quilts and Color: The Pilgrim/Roy Collection,” which opened on Tuesday in the Gund Gallery in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , is not what you might expect from a show on historical textiles. This ...

With just three colors – orange, red and green – and a geometric design, the “Ocean Waves” and the “Carpenter’s Wheel” quilts seemed to pop from the museum walls. It was a “wow” moment for the first ...

Quilts can be works of art — used to showcase design, color, pattern and technical skill. Used as table runners, wall hangings, room dividers and more, quilts add color and texture to a setting. They ...

Phyllis DeWys wasn’t expecting to get as inspired as she did while accompanying her husband on a pheasant hunt. “I go out in the field,” she said. “I don’t carry a gun. I don’t find any pleasure in it ...

WEBVTT GOOD MORNING, "EYEOPENER." CELEBRATE COLOR HERE AT THE M.F.A. THAT WAS JUST ONE OF A WHOLE COLLECTION. NEARLY 60 QUILTS ON DISPLAY THROUGH JULY. BRING THE KIDS. REALLY NICE TO SEE ALL THAT ...

The word "quilting" tends to bring to mind grandmothers and dusty floral prints, yet it is precisely that image the Museum of Fine Arts is seeking to dispel with "Quilts and Color: The Pilgrim/Roy ...

Do you like beauty? Dumb question. Here, then, is breaking news — clothed, critic-style, in naked assertion: You will not see a more beautiful show than “Quilts and Color: The Pilgrim/Roy Collection” ...

Donna Sue Groves once mused that an old barn would look nicer if draped in a quilt. When she painted a quilt block design onto wood in honor of her mother’s beautiful handmade quilts, that simple idea ...

"The Quilts of Gee's Bend," which opened at the de Young Museum during the weekend, created a sensation in 2002 when it appeared at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art, the second stop on a ...

Pecolia Warner of Yazoo City, Miss., could give you a mood for every color she quilted. White, she once explained, is for peace. Yellow expresses love. Brass means trouble, mainly because it can turn ...

"Quilts and Color presents more than 60 graphically bold American quilts from the Pilgrim/Roy Collection, one of the finest and largest collections of quilts in the world. Influenced by ...