La Vida en el Valle de Pecos

NameQuilt

Artist or maker Agnes C. de Baca

Artist or maker Jenny C. de Baca

Artist or maker Rose Lopez (American)

Artist or maker Rufina Martinez (American)

Artist or maker Violeta Velasquez (American)

Artist or maker Josela Varela (American)

Artist or maker Lois Wittich-Giles

Artist or maker Helen Varela (American)

Artist or maker Alice Lobato (American)

Artist or maker Irene Benavides (American)

Date1975

Place madePecos, New Mexico, United States, North America

Mediumwool, cotton

DimensionsOverall: 111 13/16 x 86 5/8 in. (284 x 220 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, IFAF Collection

Object numberFA.1975.32.1

Collections

DescriptionWall hanging quilt depicting daily life in the Village of Pecos, New Mexico. Depicts the roads, buildings and river in Pecos, including the monastery, the Kiva monument, lumbering, the chuch, a cornfield, a deer hunting scene, a spooky house, fishing scene, village scene and the penitentes and morada.

Over a four-month period, ten Pecos women who participated in the International Folk Art Foundation’s (IFAF) colcha workshops, designed and sewed this enormous art quilt that so accurately depicts the buildings, the activities, the roads and landscape of their town and its surroundings. Of note are the panels showing the National Historic Park, the morada and Via Crucis, the Benedictine Monastery, a hunter’s camp, adobe brick-making, and local lumbering practices (MManier).