Quilts and Color at the Boston MFA
You still have a couple weeks to get to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to see the temporary exhibit, Quilts and Color. It’s a total knockout, but not necessarily for the reasons why the MFA thinks it is. Here’s how the museum describes the show: “Quilts and Color” celebrates the vibrant color palette and inventive design seen in the acclaimed Pilgrim/Roy Quilt Collection. The exhibition features nearly 60 distinctive quilts from the renowned collection and is the first to explore how, over five decades, trained artists Paul Pilgrim and Gerald Roy searched out and collected quilts with bold, eye-popping designs that echoed the work of mid-20th century Abstract Expressionist and Op Artists. “Quilts and Color,” as this summary describes, focuses on the quilt collection of a pair of artists, whose interest in color theory and Modern art led them to collect unappreciated and undervalued examples of mostly 19th century handmade American quilts, quilts with “eye-popping designs.” This tight focus to the show led to two unusual and distinctive curatorial choices. First: the quilts are …