Faith Ringgold (American) b. 1930, The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles, 1991, Acrylic on canvas, tie dyed, pieced fabric border, 74 x 80 inches, Private CollectionFaith Ringgold was born in Harlem, New York, USA. She attended the City College of New York, where she studies with painters Robert Gathmey and Yasui Kuniyoshi. Her mother was a fashion designer, where she inspired Faith to use fabrics in her paintings. Ringgold creates painted story quilts, by combining painting, quilted fabric, and storytelling, which are becoming widely famous. "The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles" was made with acrylic on canvas, it was tie dyed and it has a pieced fabric border. This print joyously extols famous African-American women by summoning them to a quilting bee (in imagination) and putting them in the context of Van Gogh's sunflowers. It is art within art within art we see here, with Van Gogh benevolently looking on.
Color is the main element in this painting by Faith Ringgold. The sunflowers' colors stick out with their yellow, brown, and black. The houses in the back of the scene are painted unique colors like red, pink, yellow, and green. The border is a mixture of reds, blues, whites, and blacks.
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