Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective
14 July 2020
Magazine C&
1 min read
An internationally renowned artist based in Richmond, CA, Tompkins (1936-2006) contributed more than five hundred quilts to the collection of Eli Leon, a scholar and advocate for African American quiltmaking traditions who donated his entire collection of nearly three thousand works to BAMPFA. Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective marks the first exhibition at BAMPFA of …
An internationally renowned artist based in Richmond, CA, Tompkins (1936-2006) contributed more than five hundred quilts to the collection of Eli Leon, a scholar and advocate for African American quiltmaking traditions who donated his entire collection of nearly three thousand works to BAMPFA. Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective marks the first exhibition at BAMPFA of Tompkins’s work since this transformative bequest, and it includes dozens of quilts that have never been exhibited previously.
Rosie Lee Tompkins at BAMPFA. Images courtesy of BAMPFA, Berkeley. Photos by Impart Photography.
Rosie Lee Tompkins at BAMPFA. Images courtesy of BAMPFA, Berkeley. Photos by Impart Photography.
Rosie Lee Tompkins at BAMPFA. Images courtesy of BAMPFA, Berkeley. Photos by Impart Photography.
Rosie Lee Tompkins. Images courtesy of BAMPFA, Berkeley. Photos by Impart Photography.
Rosie Lee Tompkins at BAMPFA. Images courtesy of BAMPFA, Berkeley. Photos by Impart Photography.
Rosie Lee Tompkins. Images courtesy of BAMPFA, Berkeley. Photos by Impart Photography.
Rosie Lee Tompkins at BAMPFA. Images courtesy of BAMPFA, Berkeley. Photos by Impart Photography.
Rosie Lee Tompkins. Images courtesy of BAMPFA, Berkeley. Photos by Impart Photography.
Rosie Lee Tompkins. Images courtesy of BAMPFA, Berkeley. Photos by Impart Photography.
Rosie Lee Tompkins. Images courtesy of BAMPFA, Berkeley. Photos by Impart Photography.
Rosie Lee Tompkins at BAMPFA. Images courtesy of BAMPFA, Berkeley. Photos by Impart Photography.
Rosie Lee Tompkins. Images courtesy of BAMPFA, Berkeley. Photos by Impart Photography.
Rosie Lee Tompkins. Images courtesy of BAMPFA, Berkeley. Photos by Impart Photography.
Rosie Lee Tompkins. Images courtesy of BAMPFA, Berkeley. Photos by Impart Photography.
Rosie Lee Tompkins at BAMPFA. Images courtesy of BAMPFA, Berkeley. Photos by Impart Photography.
Rosie Lee Tompkins at BAMPFA. Images courtesy of BAMPFA, Berkeley. Photos by Impart Photography.
Rosie Lee Tompkins. Images courtesy of BAMPFA, Berkeley. Photos by Impart Photography.
Rosie Lee Tompkins at BAMPFA. Images courtesy of BAMPFA, Berkeley. Photos by Impart Photography.
Rosie Lee Tompkins at BAMPFA. Images courtesy of BAMPFA, Berkeley. Photos by Impart Photography.
Rosie Lee Tompkins at BAMPFA. Images courtesy of BAMPFA, Berkeley. Photos by Impart Photography.
Rosie Lee Tompkins at BAMPFA. Images courtesy of BAMPFA, Berkeley. Photos by Impart Photography.
Rosie Lee Tompkins at BAMPFA. Images courtesy of BAMPFA, Berkeley. Photos by Impart Photography.
Rosie Lee Tompkins at BAMPFA. Images courtesy of BAMPFA, Berkeley. Photos by Impart Photography.
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