By: Susan A. D. Stanley
In her lifetime, Mary Catherine Lamb (1949−2009) completed nineteen quilts, most of them vivid, eccentric portraits of saints, angels, and demonic creatures. Long separated from the faith of her childhood, Lamb believed that her combination of Catholic subjects and vintage textiles and oddments both honored and affectionately skewered her devout upbringing. Scholars speculate that the “disquieting edginess” and “saucy insouciance” of her work influenced the Studio Art Quilt establishment to keep Lamb at arm’s length.
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