Coke+Covers+the+World

Date: 1992
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1992/1992.38_1a.jpg?itok=dON2drm2 width="278" height="307" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/coke-covers-the-world-32761"]] || Title: **Coke Covers the World**

Artist: **Otesia Harper** Born: Mississippi 1925

Medium: appliqued and stitched fabric Dimensions: 81 x 74 1/4 in. (205.7 x 188.6 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr.

Accession: 1992.38 || Like many folk artists, Otesia Harper learned her craft from an older family member—in this case, her grandmother. Her skill at quilting is artfully exercised in sewing letters and faces on each coke bottle. Although not overtly patriotic, her bold use of color emphasizes the global presence of an American icon. The word "covers" also playfully alludes to the function of her quilt.
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